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 5999-01-514-7439
NSN 5999-00-288-0074
NSN 6620-01-648-1594
NSN 5945-01-135-1515
NSN 6110-00-508-5892
NSN 5905-01-473-3457
NSN 6130-00-525-9271
NSN 6320-01-532-6746
NSN 5935-01-311-5522
NSN 5985-01-531-0505
NSN 6145-01-652-4438
NSN 5990-01-408-6554