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 5905-00-484-7107
NSN 5855-00-869-3635
NSN 6610-01-435-5425
NSN 6685-01-191-5067
NSN 5895-01-471-3501
NSN 5950-01-381-1324
NSN 2925-01-446-6523
NSN 5998-01-400-0660
NSN 6320-00-925-0558
NSN 6240-01-433-9410
NSN 5985-00-927-3101
NSN 5935-01-332-2472