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 5910-00-020-3401
NSN 7035-00-631-3782
NSN 2925-00-099-4030
NSN 5975-01-291-3155
NSN 6685-01-261-4231
NSN 6610-01-622-4326
NSN 6150-00-342-9765
NSN 5910-01-352-0917
NSN 6220-01-227-4152
NSN 5895-01-450-7800
NSN 6130-01-549-5100
NSN 5835-01-498-9410