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 2925-00-010-9609
NSN 6320-00-593-0379
NSN 6110-00-058-6732
NSN 5960-01-223-9585
NSN 6650-00-910-2708
NSN 5910-00-018-1662
NSN 5945-00-571-5555
NSN 6685-01-634-0611
NSN 7035-00-215-3272
NSN 6320-01-396-2080
NSN 5985-01-601-5658
NSN 5990-00-032-6334