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 5996-01-007-2147
NSN 5895-01-359-2040
NSN 5998-01-314-6420
NSN 2925-01-570-3690
NSN 6685-00-999-7824
NSN 5910-01-412-7875
NSN 6645-00-329-0755
NSN 5905-01-585-9397
NSN 5930-01-139-2122
NSN 6320-01-600-5808
NSN 6145-01-412-9801
NSN 6135-01-599-4006