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 6135-01-596-8904
NSN 5915-00-212-1364
NSN 6130-00-266-1051
NSN 6130-00-826-8284
NSN 5990-00-583-9577
NSN 5925-00-478-7352
NSN 5960-01-481-3722
NSN 6320-00-823-2015
NSN 5925-01-158-4513
NSN 5930-01-510-2516
NSN 2925-00-644-0028
NSN 5925-01-645-4909