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 5998-00-596-9568
NSN 2925-01-633-4048
NSN 6685-00-174-7832
NSN 5905-01-256-0146
NSN 4140-00-869-7012
NSN 5925-01-605-1810
NSN 5960-01-320-2845
NSN 5945-00-243-6134
NSN 5915-00-952-5658
NSN 6135-01-301-8776
NSN 6130-01-549-6189
NSN 5996-00-289-9847