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 6645-00-919-8902
NSN 5990-00-254-4825
NSN 6320-01-399-6177
NSN 5999-01-574-4683
NSN 6645-01-399-0329
NSN 5996-00-892-4190
NSN 6145-01-484-8735
NSN 6610-01-318-1840
NSN 6220-01-477-5001
NSN 6130-01-545-5121
NSN 5935-01-399-3064
NSN 5950-01-412-1858