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 5905-00-027-9307
NSN 5998-01-025-5703
NSN 4140-01-287-5429
NSN 5990-00-804-0678
NSN 6240-01-509-1905
NSN 5960-01-541-5734
NSN 5855-01-283-3730
NSN 7035-01-138-5781
NSN 6320-01-243-2276
NSN 5905-00-600-6942
NSN 6110-01-331-6219
NSN 6685-00-404-8444