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 5905-00-148-0368
NSN 6110-01-316-8202
NSN 6320-01-305-5881
NSN 5950-00-103-7513
NSN 6135-01-368-2785
NSN 6130-00-111-7906
NSN 5855-00-631-4565
NSN 5925-01-488-9668
NSN 6320-01-585-8468
NSN 6110-01-566-0734
NSN 6240-01-164-9175
NSN 2925-01-422-1542