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 5998-00-216-8107
NSN 5935-01-269-5898
NSN 6620-00-898-2744
NSN 5895-01-005-1444
NSN 6135-01-355-8917
NSN 5855-00-586-6255
NSN 5950-00-928-1793
NSN 6130-01-400-1385
NSN 5945-01-077-1857
NSN 6320-00-853-1920
NSN 5835-00-764-4388
NSN 5975-01-135-5954