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 6685-00-413-4593
NSN 5910-01-429-9038
NSN 6685-01-527-4905
NSN 5945-01-455-2009
NSN 5990-00-350-2352
NSN 5945-01-480-4084
NSN 5930-01-067-8332
NSN 5999-01-584-7183
NSN 5965-01-147-7327
NSN 5925-01-200-6825
NSN 5965-00-055-8013
NSN 6145-01-564-9800