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 5990-00-995-6071
NSN 6130-01-609-6094
NSN 5935-01-423-8611
NSN 6110-00-675-0101
NSN 5999-01-084-9440
NSN 6620-00-527-6523
NSN 5835-00-466-8544
NSN 6145-01-185-7390
NSN 5975-01-106-2941
NSN 5915-01-540-1183
NSN 5920-00-469-8051
NSN 6110-01-458-8492