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 5975-00-808-9272
NSN 5905-00-227-9026
NSN 5965-01-464-3372
NSN 5835-00-111-3419
NSN 5996-00-665-0923
NSN 5996-01-472-2112
NSN 5855-00-427-7848
NSN 6610-01-537-0816
NSN 5910-00-222-6757
NSN 5925-01-618-8943
NSN 5975-00-812-9155
NSN 6240-01-632-6885