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 6620-01-557-6512
NSN 5855-00-233-2366
NSN 5998-00-719-7610
NSN 2925-00-596-9775
NSN 5985-01-527-2200
NSN 6650-01-371-3551
NSN 5905-01-093-5927
NSN 5895-00-472-9829
NSN 5910-01-509-4309
NSN 5950-01-202-8268
NSN 5915-01-068-4441
NSN 5925-00-254-9416