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 6650-00-557-5482
NSN 5998-00-614-2750
NSN 5998-01-192-1396
NSN 6610-01-412-0058
NSN 6685-01-547-3484
NSN 6145-01-435-7152
NSN 6240-01-546-9756
NSN 2925-00-891-9289
NSN 5985-00-661-2263
NSN 5985-00-769-6968
NSN 5965-01-336-5107
NSN 5996-00-126-4786