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 5960-00-736-0213
NSN 6650-01-649-0228
NSN 5965-00-092-8841
NSN 6130-00-996-8029
NSN 5935-01-225-5776
NSN 5855-01-141-8227
NSN 5996-01-428-2807
NSN 5855-01-448-9794
NSN 5915-01-473-7193
NSN 6145-01-387-5560
NSN 5895-01-541-4812
NSN 6610-00-185-9434