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 6105-01-174-8139
NSN 5930-00-126-2714
NSN 5925-01-521-2940
NSN 5920-01-198-7610
NSN 5975-01-265-0686
NSN 5905-00-417-9455
NSN 5930-00-703-7847
NSN 5905-01-495-9785
NSN 6130-01-565-0284
NSN 6645-01-439-7693
NSN 6220-01-532-6880
NSN 2925-01-633-4048