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 6135-00-891-4944
NSN 5915-01-648-2126
NSN 6110-01-227-3055
NSN 5930-01-426-6602
NSN 5998-01-193-6708
NSN 2925-01-062-2660
NSN 5915-01-157-6207
NSN 5999-00-106-3926
NSN 7035-01-576-8995
NSN 6110-01-245-6640
NSN 5998-01-473-4373
NSN 5905-01-573-2243