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 5920-01-250-2195
NSN 6650-00-953-0127
NSN 5935-01-056-5176
NSN 6220-00-131-2095
NSN 6320-00-809-5744
NSN 6220-00-339-1310
NSN 6220-01-423-9491
NSN 6135-01-026-9960
NSN 6105-01-581-4009
NSN 5990-01-502-8209
NSN 6620-01-210-4401
NSN 5950-00-262-0887