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 6150-00-226-0992
NSN 5965-01-512-1985
NSN 5985-01-323-6940
NSN 7035-01-540-2170
NSN 6685-01-359-8716
NSN 5950-01-430-2203
NSN 5920-00-871-1045
NSN 5996-01-216-0702
NSN 6110-01-269-3552
NSN 5935-00-342-3181
NSN 5915-00-271-2321
NSN 5998-00-364-7836