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 5855-00-912-3885
NSN 5965-00-815-2525
NSN 5835-01-150-6084
NSN 5998-00-985-4372
NSN 6610-00-953-4323
NSN 4140-01-355-2332
NSN 5905-01-642-3058
NSN 6650-01-364-8504
NSN 6145-00-414-1454
NSN 5935-01-566-4616
NSN 5835-00-825-2512
NSN 6320-00-174-1362