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 6685-01-499-6864
NSN 5855-01-391-3819
NSN 6240-01-133-5950
NSN 5985-00-665-0599
NSN 5925-01-578-8889
NSN 6650-01-509-1002
NSN 5965-01-495-1170
NSN 5945-00-676-3687
NSN 5960-01-269-9073
NSN 5950-01-535-1607
NSN 5996-01-123-9038
NSN 6110-01-196-1614