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 6620-00-137-0332
NSN 5895-01-512-9304
NSN 5935-01-177-1712
NSN 5915-01-156-8977
NSN 5925-01-557-6895
NSN 4140-01-500-1187
NSN 6145-00-168-1296
NSN 5935-00-779-9182
NSN 7035-00-088-7355
NSN 5905-01-159-4077
NSN 5935-00-011-8349
NSN 5999-01-617-4931