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 6320-00-857-4073
NSN 5965-01-460-2766
NSN 2925-01-222-7764
NSN 5985-01-099-0652
NSN 6320-01-230-8444
NSN 4140-00-782-1169
NSN 6150-00-153-3196
NSN 5998-00-679-4001
NSN 7035-01-542-7946
NSN 6610-01-643-2315
NSN 5925-01-323-4173
NSN 5996-01-141-6916