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 5965-00-060-0090
NSN 6645-01-349-6632
NSN 5985-01-591-3276
NSN 5998-00-241-6442
NSN 5950-00-494-2355
NSN 6685-01-372-8769
NSN 5985-01-131-9644
NSN 2925-00-808-5077
NSN 7035-00-148-2300
NSN 6135-01-272-6039
NSN 5960-01-086-3416
NSN 6145-01-015-4520