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 6145-00-917-6560
NSN 5960-00-831-6141
NSN 6130-01-173-1556
NSN 5920-01-096-1863
NSN 6135-01-367-6203
NSN 5915-01-607-3998
NSN 5950-00-274-7228
NSN 6320-00-583-3105
NSN 5975-01-492-3407
NSN 5920-01-029-3813
NSN 5925-01-367-2519
NSN 2925-01-244-3016