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 5975-01-577-7355
NSN 6220-01-472-9508
NSN 6650-00-219-5825
NSN 6650-01-130-6799
NSN 6135-01-590-8320
NSN 5945-01-372-0595
NSN 5950-01-441-5682
NSN 6220-01-189-6147
NSN 6685-00-946-8219
NSN 5835-00-450-8347
NSN 5960-01-003-8480
NSN 6145-01-644-8278