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 5910-00-622-3036
NSN 5935-00-470-5393
NSN 5998-00-557-2832
NSN 6650-01-210-2080
NSN 5990-01-546-1649
NSN 6320-00-731-6134
NSN 5920-00-043-5138
NSN 4140-01-077-3981
NSN 5975-01-597-4195
NSN 6130-01-537-9820
NSN 5990-00-938-4302
NSN 5920-01-016-7030