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 5915-00-728-6229
NSN 6645-01-150-9847
NSN 5998-01-105-2966
NSN 4140-01-465-8611
NSN 5999-00-427-0914
NSN 5985-01-599-5951
NSN 2925-01-079-6229
NSN 2925-01-310-3232
NSN 6610-01-354-7963
NSN 6610-00-766-7923
NSN 6135-01-252-0315
NSN 5985-01-562-7369