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 6240-00-052-0786
NSN 5920-00-059-4659
NSN 6320-00-116-3658
NSN 5999-00-487-1573
NSN 2925-01-515-1755
NSN 5990-01-516-9665
NSN 6145-01-029-4184
NSN 7035-00-481-5182
NSN 5950-01-068-9934
NSN 5920-00-902-8964
NSN 5935-01-029-8797
NSN 4140-01-089-9724