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 5935-01-486-0069
NSN 5996-01-656-2461
NSN 5905-01-555-6495
NSN 5835-00-233-6327
NSN 6130-01-384-4391
NSN 5930-01-274-0316
NSN 6645-00-574-9712
NSN 6145-01-197-9558
NSN 5835-01-469-6706
NSN 5935-01-606-9867
NSN 6610-00-222-9273
NSN 6150-00-558-5508