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 4140-00-322-9987
NSN 6610-00-912-6374
NSN 5895-00-177-2338
NSN 5855-01-218-3735
NSN 5895-00-369-7108
NSN 5950-00-819-6802
NSN 5920-00-529-0618
NSN 5975-01-422-9111
NSN 6130-01-234-0213
NSN 6650-01-281-4651
NSN 6135-00-351-8606
NSN 5835-00-275-0584