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 5910-01-628-0807
NSN 6685-01-543-7627
NSN 5975-00-754-4142
NSN 5935-01-634-0668
NSN 6645-00-620-9294
NSN 5855-00-688-9954
NSN 5999-01-274-9473
NSN 5999-01-468-0712
NSN 6130-01-600-5767
NSN 5935-00-770-9743
NSN 5835-01-459-8664
NSN 5895-01-200-7150