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 5905-00-612-8326
NSN 5996-00-521-2583
NSN 5905-00-901-7060
NSN 5915-01-512-0131
NSN 6150-01-221-5479
NSN 5998-01-577-7655
NSN 5910-01-031-6476
NSN 6620-01-148-9071
NSN 5965-00-188-5531
NSN 5910-00-276-8592
NSN 5998-00-968-9583
NSN 5985-00-646-8004