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 5999-01-525-2690
NSN 2925-01-325-3974
NSN 6240-01-397-0704
NSN 2925-01-093-5479
NSN 5915-00-156-7877
NSN 5945-00-470-9447
NSN 6130-01-441-5404
NSN 6320-01-519-8767
NSN 6320-01-390-5385
NSN 6645-01-605-8796
NSN 5920-01-349-3488
NSN 5920-00-607-3385