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 7035-00-495-2137
NSN 6320-00-476-6898
NSN 5935-00-987-9914
NSN 5945-00-150-3034
NSN 5835-01-031-7265
NSN 5975-01-262-0136
NSN 5925-01-249-9066
NSN 5945-01-649-0011
NSN 6220-00-847-9560
NSN 5990-01-234-8646
NSN 5835-01-386-0110
NSN 5998-01-306-9227