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 6135-00-542-6728
NSN 5910-00-288-5979
NSN 5999-01-317-3819
NSN 5965-01-360-4329
NSN 5996-01-621-2425
NSN 5985-01-146-5679
NSN 6220-01-486-5749
NSN 4140-01-530-0373
NSN 5975-01-290-5789
NSN 6650-01-213-1231
NSN 6650-01-581-1184
NSN 4140-01-074-4351