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 5965-00-823-8623
NSN 4140-00-518-2744
NSN 5990-01-621-6969
NSN 4140-01-224-7662
NSN 6320-00-343-1798
NSN 6130-01-486-4462
NSN 5895-00-009-9152
NSN 6220-00-008-3920
NSN 5990-00-008-1828
NSN 5996-00-018-3802
NSN 6610-00-080-2985
NSN 5985-00-279-9914