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 5835-00-065-6757
NSN 5925-00-454-9232
NSN 5965-01-533-4851
NSN 5915-00-242-7749
NSN 5925-00-969-3090
NSN 5975-00-819-1861
NSN 5910-01-065-0977
NSN 6645-00-004-8628
NSN 5999-01-323-7113
NSN 2925-01-607-4340
NSN 6650-01-422-1037
NSN 6650-01-310-7403