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 5999-00-636-7239
NSN 5835-00-554-0399
NSN 6130-01-011-9861
NSN 5998-00-071-5035
NSN 4140-00-466-9268
NSN 5950-01-550-7322
NSN 5925-00-431-3256
NSN 6135-01-348-8264
NSN 5920-01-088-0707
NSN 5999-00-435-9461
NSN 5935-01-449-9260
NSN 2925-01-612-0405