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 6685-01-449-2450
NSN 5985-01-099-1517
NSN 6685-00-435-8831
NSN 5990-01-421-5342
NSN 7035-01-461-4634
NSN 5910-01-141-4516
NSN 6105-00-186-0161
NSN 5935-00-298-2004
NSN 6610-01-065-1073
NSN 5915-01-175-1628
NSN 5930-00-260-4315
NSN 5975-00-528-9774