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 5930-00-399-7242
NSN 5975-01-476-1484
NSN 5990-01-529-7307
NSN 6645-01-371-6856
NSN 5910-00-450-1806
NSN 6645-00-080-1087
NSN 7035-01-477-4181
NSN 4140-00-826-9031
NSN 5895-00-891-4498
NSN 5915-01-409-2926
NSN 5985-00-681-8298
NSN 5935-00-840-4904