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 5835-00-147-5062
NSN 5985-01-255-2158
NSN 6685-00-955-0092
NSN 6220-00-070-7878
NSN 6110-00-663-4054
NSN 5985-00-004-4990
NSN 5920-01-089-3559
NSN 6320-01-232-4664
NSN 5925-00-179-0094
NSN 6685-00-221-4950
NSN 5855-00-466-2309
NSN 6685-01-643-2611