An electromechanical item which accepts and systematically retains digital input data in such a manner as to facilitate the rapid recovery of stored information. The item may or may not consist of disk(s) some of which are removable, hard, removable disk packs, fixed disks, or removable flexible, each surface coated with a material susceptible to spot magnetization, integral writing, a drive motor and its mechanical linkage, and data translating heads for impressing on or removing from the disk surface data in digital form. the item is a component of an electronic computer. see also, magnetic drum, data storage; core memory unit.
Classification: Other storage units, nesoi
NSN 5990-00-359-9839
NSN 6240-00-455-6426
NSN 5935-01-132-4438
NSN 7035-01-305-1950
NSN 5975-01-186-4268
NSN 5915-01-414-2782
NSN 5935-01-575-6949
NSN 5945-01-014-7051
NSN 2925-00-501-6434
NSN 6130-00-661-0197
NSN 6240-01-335-2622
NSN 6150-00-318-8209