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 5855-00-688-9954
NSN 5925-01-147-5725
NSN 5920-01-074-6865
NSN 6110-01-087-9071
NSN 5945-01-598-4573
NSN 2925-01-515-7026
NSN 5925-00-617-9927
NSN 5930-01-626-6380
NSN 5985-00-027-2245
NSN 6645-00-899-1235
NSN 2925-01-069-5324
NSN 2925-01-650-3412