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 6135-01-130-3145
NSN 5930-00-825-2854
NSN 6110-00-223-2081
NSN 5999-01-433-1548
NSN 6150-01-463-8872
NSN 2925-01-468-7073
NSN 5996-01-358-8671
NSN 6150-01-584-4727
NSN 6135-01-428-8821
NSN 5895-01-309-0376
NSN 5905-01-613-4360
NSN 7035-00-834-2090