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 5835-00-368-4182
NSN 6650-01-207-2905
NSN 6145-01-227-6525
NSN 6145-00-246-2424
NSN 5999-01-611-7769
NSN 5975-01-369-7900
NSN 6685-01-376-5957
NSN 5855-00-532-0025
NSN 6685-00-477-7177
NSN 6620-00-854-5024
NSN 6320-01-215-1133
NSN 5835-01-085-9591