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 5835-00-905-7165
NSN 5910-00-764-0406
NSN 5935-01-052-4268
NSN 5965-00-013-7990
NSN 5985-01-661-2474
NSN 5945-01-592-3379
NSN 6620-01-512-0132
NSN 4140-01-418-7534
NSN 5920-01-051-2239
NSN 5999-01-547-2313
NSN 5935-00-929-7874
NSN 6220-01-449-2014