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 5996-01-323-6008
NSN 5905-01-622-7674
NSN 5935-00-255-2186
NSN 5960-01-513-3230
NSN 6220-00-614-7174
NSN 5915-01-621-8904
NSN 5930-01-514-7666
NSN 4140-00-694-1936
NSN 5915-00-312-4398
NSN 5895-01-421-2690
NSN 6220-00-511-3934
NSN 6220-00-468-5801