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 6320-01-106-4414
NSN 5920-00-189-0858
NSN 6650-00-575-7487
NSN 7035-01-597-0671
NSN 5920-00-681-6464
NSN 5905-01-147-6108
NSN 5835-01-118-4690
NSN 5999-01-297-5430
NSN 6650-01-187-2545
NSN 5925-01-435-3766
NSN 5895-01-322-8395
NSN 5990-00-937-6445