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 5960-00-717-7844
NSN 5855-00-821-7512
NSN 5935-01-386-9762
NSN 2925-00-588-5592
NSN 6240-00-617-9599
NSN 5910-01-177-4623
NSN 6150-01-331-0434
NSN 4140-01-184-7370
NSN 5835-01-328-6626
NSN 6685-01-155-8422
NSN 6130-01-189-5050
NSN 6645-01-462-2101