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 5910-01-028-4135
NSN 6645-00-877-6002
NSN 6240-01-090-2280
NSN 6220-00-101-8799
NSN 6685-00-155-4301
NSN 6110-00-494-1749
NSN 6620-01-497-3639
NSN 6650-01-421-4024
NSN 5895-01-226-7956
NSN 5925-01-440-0392
NSN 6130-01-610-9102
NSN 5975-01-634-0678