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 6320-00-593-0379
NSN 2925-01-139-5144
NSN 2925-00-502-3768
NSN 5920-01-551-1295
NSN 5996-01-229-2469
NSN 5998-01-080-0352
NSN 6105-01-128-3153
NSN 5996-01-246-4675
NSN 2925-00-881-3770
NSN 5998-01-500-0399
NSN 6110-01-400-4207
NSN 5998-00-269-5444