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 5999-00-767-7924
NSN 5920-00-003-2940
NSN 6135-00-935-8769
NSN 6135-01-205-5965
NSN 5920-01-134-1673
NSN 5985-01-438-6892
NSN 5998-01-623-1368
NSN 7035-01-646-6718
NSN 6610-01-032-2890
NSN 5910-00-552-8375
NSN 5998-01-293-3435
NSN 5925-00-113-5066