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 5925-00-451-8684
NSN 5925-01-388-2128
NSN 2925-01-008-1552
NSN 6130-01-530-9312
NSN 5910-01-393-1672
NSN 5996-01-479-1688
NSN 5935-01-259-9998
NSN 6240-01-357-7925
NSN 5960-01-658-9538
NSN 6105-00-992-3672
NSN 5996-01-333-6644
NSN 6685-00-269-6444