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 6610-00-988-9294
NSN 5930-00-702-3188
NSN 6610-00-540-8911
NSN 5920-00-786-8241
NSN 5960-01-480-7629
NSN 6650-01-420-9247
NSN 4140-00-232-9859
NSN 5996-01-347-5725
NSN 5905-01-335-8912
NSN 5910-00-203-8284
NSN 6220-01-531-1402
NSN 6130-01-026-0603