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 5855-00-127-5559
NSN 6105-01-645-2582
NSN 5990-00-067-6545
NSN 5998-00-311-0483
NSN 5930-00-612-7049
NSN 6620-01-478-2485
NSN 5910-01-558-6794
NSN 6620-01-459-6401
NSN 6240-00-191-2855
NSN 5990-01-108-0436
NSN 6620-01-524-9112
NSN 5855-01-096-9294