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 6135-00-593-6831
NSN 5920-00-897-4857
NSN 6145-01-535-7505
NSN 5950-00-281-2389
NSN 6610-00-446-2880
NSN 6135-01-202-8113
NSN 5920-01-048-0548
NSN 5930-01-466-7050
NSN 5910-00-959-3723
NSN 5960-01-163-8905
NSN 5960-01-229-6324
NSN 6145-00-253-2787