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 6110-00-873-3198
NSN 6110-01-609-6111
NSN 5930-00-093-9511
NSN 6110-01-370-3803
NSN 6240-00-333-5627
NSN 4140-00-186-3062
NSN 5925-01-108-8155
NSN 5965-01-492-5695
NSN 5965-01-217-7167
NSN 5920-00-904-9156
NSN 6685-00-020-9793
NSN 5996-00-617-1676