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 6685-00-677-7134
NSN 5835-00-262-6146
NSN 5920-01-157-9471
NSN 6110-01-463-2597
NSN 6145-00-104-7789
NSN 5915-01-099-4153
NSN 7035-01-283-2536
NSN 5996-01-175-6195
NSN 5925-01-419-3947
NSN 5930-00-526-0543
NSN 5975-00-342-9195
NSN 5930-00-683-5554