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 5996-00-222-6049
NSN 5895-01-161-1706
NSN 6135-01-594-6107
NSN 5855-01-306-1843
NSN 5855-01-087-1417
NSN 4140-00-805-9531
NSN 5930-00-407-4460
NSN 5910-01-383-7135
NSN 5910-01-072-2184
NSN 5985-01-550-9852
NSN 6610-01-280-9729
NSN 5915-00-978-1442