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 6685-00-522-8874
NSN 5925-01-349-2227
NSN 6105-00-898-5072
NSN 5835-01-515-6537
NSN 5920-01-470-5835
NSN 5998-00-633-5169
NSN 5895-00-175-6415
NSN 5905-01-494-8340
NSN 7035-00-631-3782
NSN 5905-00-078-4524
NSN 5975-01-245-1460
NSN 5910-01-046-0210