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 6620-01-065-3742
NSN 6135-00-422-3967
NSN 5835-00-217-2147
NSN 6135-01-651-7287
NSN 5950-01-271-8986
NSN 5905-01-486-5555
NSN 5985-01-503-0662
NSN 4140-00-888-9836
NSN 5950-00-248-5674
NSN 6220-00-391-1076
NSN 5950-00-950-9211
NSN 5975-00-230-3756