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 5925-00-235-0046
NSN 5930-01-438-4873
NSN 5950-01-578-7152
NSN 5965-01-499-5482
NSN 6145-01-476-3820
NSN 5945-00-895-0676
NSN 6135-01-109-8763
NSN 2925-00-238-1668
NSN 5999-00-904-3486
NSN 6135-00-377-9165
NSN 6685-01-442-0893
NSN 6240-01-378-7585