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 5925-00-584-7189
NSN 6220-00-098-7923
NSN 6135-01-350-1715
NSN 5998-01-548-1100
NSN 6145-01-627-1611
NSN 5910-01-205-1891
NSN 5990-01-258-3848
NSN 5920-00-285-2245
NSN 6645-00-124-9939
NSN 5905-01-206-9978
NSN 6135-01-025-8109
NSN 5930-00-081-8782