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 6220-00-632-0632
NSN 5990-01-159-5988
NSN 5965-01-233-2759
NSN 5895-00-316-9518
NSN 5998-00-431-4843
NSN 6220-01-125-3860
NSN 5925-01-301-2920
NSN 6135-01-187-4382
NSN 5996-01-434-6075
NSN 5965-01-188-8530
NSN 5945-00-824-8846
NSN 5895-01-327-3624