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 6685-00-408-1386
NSN 6145-00-290-3859
NSN 6320-00-449-5096
NSN 5960-01-193-5224
NSN 5920-01-604-7087
NSN 6610-01-248-4339
NSN 6620-00-391-7858
NSN 5935-00-666-4877
NSN 5965-01-477-1030
NSN 6110-01-504-4852
NSN 5920-01-188-8833
NSN 5985-00-404-2720