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 5999-00-167-7702
NSN 6240-00-383-2573
NSN 4140-01-245-3281
NSN 6145-00-058-2436
NSN 5990-01-443-2931
NSN 5835-00-409-8355
NSN 6240-00-170-5302
NSN 6240-01-298-4644
NSN 6650-00-788-1461
NSN 6135-01-457-7849
NSN 5950-01-295-5474
NSN 5960-01-454-7064