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 6685-01-581-6685
NSN 5996-00-887-0595
NSN 6135-00-347-0595
NSN 6620-00-104-6937
NSN 6105-01-365-2634
NSN 5960-01-276-7836
NSN 5965-00-246-5612
NSN 5999-01-337-5261
NSN 5895-01-006-6756
NSN 5965-01-513-9978
NSN 5910-01-428-7105
NSN 5999-01-115-1829