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 6320-00-977-3930
NSN 5925-01-184-6912
NSN 5915-00-860-0861
NSN 5925-00-052-1748
NSN 5910-00-904-1034
NSN 6145-01-059-7648
NSN 7035-01-432-2424
NSN 5915-01-241-1803
NSN 6240-01-497-3085
NSN 5910-00-170-6784
NSN 5910-01-067-9403
NSN 6685-00-296-0392