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 5950-01-536-4797
NSN 5985-01-290-4853
NSN 6610-00-124-9525
NSN 6610-01-512-3248
NSN 6145-01-057-2926
NSN 5990-01-459-5482
NSN 5835-00-683-4612
NSN 5935-00-401-2996
NSN 5999-00-099-4476
NSN 2925-01-565-6410
NSN 6320-01-386-3491
NSN 6110-01-580-7147