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 6645-00-171-9639
NSN 5925-00-353-0612
NSN 6135-01-562-6582
NSN 6645-00-961-5432
NSN 6110-00-955-0900
NSN 5945-01-386-8052
NSN 7035-00-167-7411
NSN 2925-01-300-2897
NSN 6150-01-186-3973
NSN 6105-01-424-8861
NSN 5920-00-477-4408
NSN 5999-00-282-3150