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 5990-00-132-6430
NSN 5905-01-182-6594
NSN 6105-00-146-5086
NSN 5990-01-643-4167
NSN 2925-01-332-7178
NSN 5925-01-627-2038
NSN 5925-01-023-1411
NSN 6645-00-270-6817
NSN 6650-01-353-3917
NSN 5920-01-311-2474
NSN 7035-01-003-9142
NSN 4140-00-672-9531