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 5935-00-826-8805
NSN 6320-00-270-8222
NSN 5910-01-461-3409
NSN 5935-01-237-2652
NSN 5996-01-019-0664
NSN 5985-01-490-7409
NSN 6130-01-157-9307
NSN 4140-00-159-8471
NSN 5920-00-081-9156
NSN 5975-00-840-5844
NSN 5835-01-555-8963
NSN 5950-01-604-9435