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 7035-00-849-5526
NSN 5950-01-545-2514
NSN 5950-01-168-8071
NSN 5960-01-112-0721
NSN 5998-00-005-4370
NSN 5960-01-065-9684
NSN 5930-01-592-8845
NSN 5855-01-545-3659
NSN 5965-01-037-8333
NSN 6645-01-274-3384
NSN 5998-01-301-4695
NSN 6610-00-290-0758