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 5935-00-490-7348
NSN 5960-01-192-2461
NSN 5965-01-539-7345
NSN 5935-00-803-0030
NSN 6620-00-243-7766
NSN 5960-01-514-5433
NSN 5985-00-686-2313
NSN 5990-00-004-4158
NSN 6150-01-070-3471
NSN 6620-01-612-6360
NSN 4140-01-084-9299
NSN 6685-01-392-0602