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 7035-00-009-8705
NSN 5935-01-238-5031
NSN 5910-01-093-4216
NSN 5999-01-162-8750
NSN 5925-01-250-2514
NSN 5945-01-504-3740
NSN 5965-01-225-7974
NSN 5960-00-899-0942
NSN 6150-01-437-8354
NSN 5998-00-195-7657
NSN 6145-01-140-0049
NSN 5925-00-203-1278