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 5945-00-528-1920
NSN 6685-00-631-4739
NSN 6105-01-262-1839
NSN 5950-01-487-6883
NSN 5910-01-044-5886
NSN 6320-01-185-3857
NSN 6130-00-081-7844
NSN 5999-01-421-3388
NSN 6150-01-561-2265
NSN 5915-01-077-2208
NSN 5999-01-088-6409
NSN 6650-01-531-6738