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 5895-00-115-5876
NSN 5999-01-394-5186
NSN 6135-01-026-9960
NSN 5895-01-471-8346
NSN 5910-01-408-5201
NSN 6130-01-294-9894
NSN 5985-01-328-6772
NSN 5905-01-528-7879
NSN 2925-01-157-9204
NSN 7035-01-514-4617
NSN 6135-00-078-9931
NSN 6685-01-142-3201