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 6135-00-134-6648
NSN 6650-00-068-2208
NSN 5965-00-905-6895
NSN 5999-01-578-8746
NSN 5935-01-386-6341
NSN 6320-01-322-8340
NSN 5835-01-076-8445
NSN 6220-01-567-6932
NSN 5975-00-794-9413
NSN 5925-01-432-8431
NSN 5945-01-145-8932
NSN 5935-00-463-2653