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 5985-00-953-0377
NSN 5996-01-557-4160
NSN 5998-01-591-4586
NSN 5835-01-376-8454
NSN 6685-01-464-3128
NSN 5930-01-302-4886
NSN 5910-01-467-5473
NSN 5895-01-539-9946
NSN 5925-01-399-6777
NSN 6320-01-521-1764
NSN 5905-01-280-2613
NSN 2925-01-197-7864