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 6320-00-389-4756
NSN 5895-00-496-9231
NSN 6105-01-193-6575
NSN 5945-01-537-0202
NSN 5945-00-753-7716
NSN 5996-00-081-3175
NSN 2925-01-170-1089
NSN 4140-00-155-8012
NSN 6110-01-553-8520
NSN 6145-00-900-7081
NSN 2925-00-278-9468
NSN 5945-00-156-4324