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 6145-00-802-6489
NSN 5915-00-383-1471
NSN 6220-01-622-1121
NSN 5965-00-622-7025
NSN 6645-00-841-0026
NSN 4140-01-501-1352
NSN 5945-01-451-6097
NSN 4140-00-497-3416
NSN 6110-01-483-1521
NSN 6220-00-141-6150
NSN 6240-01-268-7104
NSN 6145-01-081-1073