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 5855-00-797-8217
NSN 6240-00-166-2271
NSN 5985-01-312-1166
NSN 5915-01-249-5322
NSN 5990-01-211-6136
NSN 5996-01-517-0312
NSN 6650-01-437-6279
NSN 6130-00-816-7981
NSN 6110-01-138-1205
NSN 6620-01-109-1906
NSN 6620-01-521-0580
NSN 5835-01-073-2455