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 6105-00-549-2668
NSN 6220-01-237-2488
NSN 5998-01-033-4197
NSN 6220-01-547-5183
NSN 6650-01-419-0286
NSN 6645-01-620-4837
NSN 7035-01-578-3543
NSN 5950-01-555-8152
NSN 6645-01-400-2119
NSN 5915-00-334-0138
NSN 5895-01-619-9148
NSN 5990-01-292-6000