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 5915-00-649-8763
NSN 6645-01-248-3123
NSN 5999-00-266-3805
NSN 2925-01-271-8727
NSN 6110-00-411-3169
NSN 7035-00-585-2113
NSN 6145-01-346-3931
NSN 5985-00-626-9051
NSN 2925-01-055-9705
NSN 5960-00-315-0358
NSN 5915-01-315-8940
NSN 5855-01-033-1375