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 5985-01-400-5948
NSN 6145-01-488-3158
NSN 6105-01-355-1262
NSN 6650-01-107-3830
NSN 6645-01-034-0469
NSN 5915-00-764-7081
NSN 5996-00-573-1853
NSN 5920-00-785-5471
NSN 5910-01-445-6903
NSN 5935-01-229-7200
NSN 6130-01-181-7068
NSN 5998-01-600-1814