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 5895-00-878-8645
NSN 5960-00-927-6716
NSN 5999-01-432-5240
NSN 5935-00-901-0904
NSN 2925-01-269-3861
NSN 6685-01-487-0173
NSN 6610-01-568-5241
NSN 6620-00-972-5899
NSN 5935-01-624-0027
NSN 5965-01-516-9960
NSN 6320-01-544-6447
NSN 5950-01-286-8276