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 7035-01-625-2119
NSN 5930-00-441-2196
NSN 6685-01-519-2359
NSN 5999-01-213-8656
NSN 6645-01-062-6705
NSN 5935-01-096-5221
NSN 6220-00-186-8565
NSN 5998-01-647-6567
NSN 7035-00-890-7649
NSN 6220-01-335-7801
NSN 5935-01-628-3477
NSN 5855-00-327-2112