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 5930-01-496-7069
NSN 6130-00-528-7838
NSN 6130-01-431-8530
NSN 5965-01-533-3989
NSN 5905-00-007-3907
NSN 5915-01-106-2606
NSN 5895-01-154-7565
NSN 6105-01-159-6382
NSN 5990-01-416-0362
NSN 5985-01-359-5084
NSN 2925-01-058-1718
NSN 5910-00-111-2065