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 5835-01-442-6482
NSN 6110-00-587-9086
NSN 6135-00-809-2148
NSN 5835-01-471-5848
NSN 6135-01-347-0201
NSN 5975-00-233-6301
NSN 5910-01-116-4829
NSN 6110-01-259-4402
NSN 5905-00-974-9548
NSN 5998-00-127-8656
NSN 5930-00-943-6881
NSN 5930-01-056-1600