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 5915-00-270-3764
NSN 5920-00-738-8074
NSN 5998-01-573-6064
NSN 5835-01-436-6549
NSN 2925-01-357-2512
NSN 5895-01-646-8164
NSN 5935-00-008-8686
NSN 6320-00-583-3105
NSN 5998-01-566-0053
NSN 5935-00-644-9978
NSN 2925-00-497-7808
NSN 6130-00-713-2524