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 6135-00-548-2765
NSN 5915-01-317-3158
NSN 6685-01-576-9204
NSN 6685-01-415-0972
NSN 4140-01-594-4551
NSN 5960-00-224-6828
NSN 5965-00-356-3838
NSN 6135-01-113-1507
NSN 6150-01-336-5078
NSN 5996-01-397-6286
NSN 4140-01-055-6355
NSN 5999-01-631-8453