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 5915-01-619-0960
NSN 6145-00-075-4620
NSN 5975-00-587-4871
NSN 5960-01-437-7422
NSN 5920-00-422-0757
NSN 6240-00-010-1124
NSN 6135-01-384-5906
NSN 6145-01-634-0388
NSN 5990-01-303-6110
NSN 6130-01-482-1659
NSN 6220-01-480-6750
NSN 2925-01-037-5383