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 5910-00-729-6949
NSN 5855-00-004-0904
NSN 5999-01-039-0499
NSN 7035-01-466-5636
NSN 5925-00-919-1795
NSN 6130-01-201-9302
NSN 5910-01-132-4387
NSN 5910-01-446-9819
NSN 5950-00-021-8566
NSN 6645-00-336-4783
NSN 6135-01-355-8917
NSN 6320-01-240-4637