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 6135-00-782-6988
NSN 5945-01-126-2471
NSN 5985-00-770-8089
NSN 4140-00-032-5739
NSN 6105-01-044-2559
NSN 5999-01-463-4329
NSN 2925-00-845-1480
NSN 5985-01-046-4006
NSN 5925-01-512-0779
NSN 5910-01-332-6785
NSN 6610-01-660-1712
NSN 6610-01-067-6591