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 6620-00-861-3828
NSN 5930-01-367-1642
NSN 5895-01-503-6184
NSN 4140-01-575-5296
NSN 5990-01-463-5400
NSN 5835-00-136-9103
NSN 6645-00-833-2395
NSN 6135-00-437-5182
NSN 5915-01-364-1116
NSN 5905-01-189-7628
NSN 4140-00-878-1222
NSN 5999-00-091-9514