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 6135-00-553-7995
NSN 6320-01-017-5274
NSN 5915-00-144-5548
NSN 6145-00-896-1893
NSN 6220-00-763-4131
NSN 5999-01-067-9504
NSN 5998-00-166-4397
NSN 5990-00-727-0723
NSN 5996-01-227-2242
NSN 6645-00-394-8924
NSN 6320-01-476-7702
NSN 5895-01-298-8943