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 6620-00-193-0518
NSN 5915-00-442-5168
NSN 6130-01-331-7921
NSN 5835-00-912-5656
NSN 5930-01-519-9318
NSN 5835-00-129-9913
NSN 6130-00-222-6216
NSN 5930-00-762-2386
NSN 5960-01-349-2773
NSN 6105-00-275-0826
NSN 5960-00-597-2680
NSN 6145-01-472-2228