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 6135-01-412-5836
NSN 6685-00-790-6679
NSN 6685-01-117-2925
NSN 5996-00-622-1546
NSN 6135-01-469-7574
NSN 6145-01-484-4081
NSN 5920-00-122-8702
NSN 5945-01-627-5031
NSN 5920-00-835-6013
NSN 5905-01-286-7049
NSN 5905-00-597-6081
NSN 6130-01-182-7494