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 5920-01-414-2393
NSN 6685-01-254-6799
NSN 6130-01-411-3062
NSN 5835-01-368-4015
NSN 2925-00-176-3889
NSN 5915-01-366-2619
NSN 6130-01-506-5003
NSN 5835-01-545-6467
NSN 5965-01-317-6077
NSN 5950-01-292-9147
NSN 6135-01-462-6040
NSN 5990-01-063-2532