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 5910-01-347-0260
NSN 5990-00-033-0807
NSN 6620-01-097-7078
NSN 6105-01-322-7137
NSN 5999-00-179-9747
NSN 6320-00-925-0558
NSN 6110-01-069-4895
NSN 5965-01-536-6014
NSN 5910-00-252-7453
NSN 5975-01-008-1667
NSN 6620-00-965-9841
NSN 7035-01-352-6235