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 6650-00-186-5966
NSN 5975-01-009-3723
NSN 6145-01-107-3275
NSN 5835-01-250-2939
NSN 6130-01-436-4675
NSN 6650-00-945-9105
NSN 6145-01-370-9201
NSN 5855-00-014-5008
NSN 7035-00-981-7216
NSN 6105-01-286-2236
NSN 2925-01-446-6976
NSN 4140-01-478-8684