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 5920-00-152-0267
NSN 5985-00-382-0196
NSN 4140-01-269-3304
NSN 5999-00-302-4857
NSN 5999-00-147-8027
NSN 5999-01-576-9656
NSN 5835-01-178-4154
NSN 5945-01-159-3266
NSN 4140-00-146-1633
NSN 5930-01-504-8763
NSN 5910-00-209-6243
NSN 6135-00-973-5632