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 6645-00-633-3824
NSN 5996-00-195-1675
NSN 5998-01-550-0518
NSN 5998-01-151-0871
NSN 6130-01-218-4710
NSN 5965-00-661-0469
NSN 6620-01-126-4126
NSN 6130-01-033-1536
NSN 6150-01-226-9660
NSN 2925-01-067-3096
NSN 7035-01-075-7457
NSN 2925-01-562-8051