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 5905-01-624-8719
NSN 2925-01-582-5834
NSN 6135-00-932-3136
NSN 2925-01-430-4206
NSN 5985-00-678-5297
NSN 5999-00-583-5703
NSN 5999-01-020-7641
NSN 5920-00-097-7648
NSN 5998-00-529-8635
NSN 6620-01-094-6549
NSN 6610-01-255-4544
NSN 6320-00-110-8005