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 6620-00-707-4195
NSN 5985-01-437-3635
NSN 5950-01-313-2119
NSN 6145-01-607-2789
NSN 5996-00-734-5364
NSN 6320-01-434-6861
NSN 5930-01-350-1868
NSN 6645-00-838-6939
NSN 6105-01-410-6725
NSN 5985-00-863-3707
NSN 6110-01-272-1864
NSN 5835-01-540-4995