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 6620-00-847-6385
NSN 5925-00-833-2703
NSN 6650-01-265-2672
NSN 5990-01-544-4360
NSN 2925-00-278-9468
NSN 5935-01-068-6437
NSN 6685-01-217-8420
NSN 5985-00-810-2464
NSN 5855-01-492-6385
NSN 5925-01-324-6032
NSN 5935-00-394-3726
NSN 6650-00-144-4555