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 6645-00-004-8628
NSN 5975-01-361-5134
NSN 2925-01-415-0264
NSN 5985-01-300-0821
NSN 5975-00-208-6771
NSN 5895-00-874-0324
NSN 5985-01-611-0375
NSN 4140-01-197-0406
NSN 5965-01-633-4899
NSN 5965-00-977-5658
NSN 2925-01-564-8043
NSN 6130-01-604-3392