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 5910-00-292-0048
NSN 5915-00-869-0113
NSN 6145-00-053-5731
NSN 5925-00-892-1115
NSN 5915-01-028-5622
NSN 5950-00-104-5436
NSN 6650-00-202-4540
NSN 5945-01-630-2480
NSN 5985-01-157-7130
NSN 5998-00-973-4335
NSN 7035-00-868-2640
NSN 5925-01-170-7899