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 6105-00-161-1834
NSN 5950-01-040-1715
NSN 6610-00-769-6826
NSN 6220-00-554-5937
NSN 6135-00-683-0536
NSN 5990-01-310-5630
NSN 5910-01-659-3324
NSN 6105-01-137-8522
NSN 5965-00-050-3590
NSN 2925-01-547-4565
NSN 5920-00-893-8679
NSN 6650-01-481-3618