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 6130-00-078-2241
NSN 5930-01-483-5132
NSN 5950-00-914-0808
NSN 6645-01-132-7806
NSN 5835-00-427-2772
NSN 5950-01-319-2324
NSN 6130-00-799-9383
NSN 6220-01-419-9875
NSN 6645-01-060-7988
NSN 5965-01-254-3622
NSN 5998-01-152-3609
NSN 5910-01-120-5119