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 5945-00-269-5375
NSN 7035-01-220-6392
NSN 6145-01-091-2064
NSN 5998-01-201-8250
NSN 6620-00-421-7509
NSN 7035-01-095-9322
NSN 5930-01-171-8920
NSN 6220-00-061-8076
NSN 5950-00-186-9796
NSN 5835-00-005-7909
NSN 2925-01-368-5773
NSN 5855-01-020-7982