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 6130-00-607-6069
NSN 5945-01-202-9666
NSN 6130-01-334-9320
NSN 6240-00-837-3318
NSN 4140-01-447-6153
NSN 6620-01-177-5567
NSN 6220-00-758-2378
NSN 5960-00-597-2680
NSN 5999-01-495-5685
NSN 6130-01-612-2192
NSN 5996-01-085-7307
NSN 5925-01-540-6008