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 5905-00-249-1812
NSN 5920-00-071-4878
NSN 5990-01-378-7349
NSN 4140-00-410-2581
NSN 6610-00-536-4977
NSN 5990-01-238-1975
NSN 2925-01-411-4666
NSN 6620-00-829-1860
NSN 5996-01-200-1582
NSN 5920-01-451-5175
NSN 5985-01-580-0566
NSN 6145-00-084-1342