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 5950-00-186-9097
NSN 6135-01-400-2947
NSN 6240-00-493-3693
NSN 5945-00-089-8066
NSN 6135-01-438-9450
NSN 5965-00-249-6980
NSN 5998-01-327-6051
NSN 6685-01-200-8184
NSN 5910-01-418-5817
NSN 2925-01-560-4123
NSN 6105-00-205-0655
NSN 6110-01-571-7987