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 5910-00-721-3566
NSN 2925-01-187-5480
NSN 5930-01-304-7622
NSN 6150-00-997-4571
NSN 6135-01-067-8331
NSN 5945-01-645-3742
NSN 5999-01-463-3390
NSN 5930-00-194-2416
NSN 6130-00-017-9339
NSN 7035-01-158-7673
NSN 6645-00-363-9775
NSN 5930-00-420-5577