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 5895-00-146-1809
NSN 5960-01-255-5580
NSN 7035-00-968-4848
NSN 5999-00-141-7682
NSN 5935-01-019-2856
NSN 5905-01-224-5949
NSN 5855-01-092-7755
NSN 5985-01-202-1251
NSN 4140-00-412-2408
NSN 5945-01-072-5301
NSN 7035-01-073-0394
NSN 6610-01-538-8141