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 5935-01-542-9699
NSN 5930-00-786-1857
NSN 6620-01-426-2220
NSN 6645-01-116-9634
NSN 5855-00-188-6747
NSN 6650-00-500-6455
NSN 5950-01-463-6152
NSN 6320-01-592-6248
NSN 5835-01-328-6626
NSN 6320-01-462-2295
NSN 5996-00-106-0818
NSN 5990-01-183-6478