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 5920-01-168-7810
NSN 6220-01-378-7467
NSN 6645-01-547-5748
NSN 6220-00-236-1119
NSN 5910-00-826-2725
NSN 5935-00-062-6019
NSN 6150-01-034-7686
NSN 6240-01-396-1809
NSN 6110-00-001-1535
NSN 5965-00-629-5568
NSN 5910-00-082-7543
NSN 5975-01-283-6398