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 6130-00-937-5624
NSN 6130-00-954-2859
NSN 5910-01-415-8351
NSN 5960-00-515-7366
NSN 6220-00-100-4937
NSN 6685-01-434-5557
NSN 4140-00-167-1705
NSN 5950-01-133-3811
NSN 2925-01-025-0082
NSN 5930-01-472-3953
NSN 5950-00-241-3787
NSN 5895-01-519-9373