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 6610-00-170-6715
NSN 5985-00-244-1916
NSN 4140-01-294-2671
NSN 6110-00-704-1460
NSN 6610-01-338-0628
NSN 5855-00-256-5562
NSN 5975-01-139-2807
NSN 5925-01-370-3458
NSN 5990-01-548-5979
NSN 5999-00-270-8315
NSN 6105-01-005-3840
NSN 5925-00-891-4079