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 5990-00-113-2653
NSN 2925-01-293-6266
NSN 6220-01-020-7596
NSN 6135-01-466-3980
NSN 5975-01-113-7397
NSN 5990-01-205-5937
NSN 5895-01-413-3576
NSN 5999-01-513-1907
NSN 6620-01-441-7896
NSN 5930-00-283-7366
NSN 6620-01-400-2928
NSN 5935-01-526-3658