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 5945-01-202-5111
NSN 6150-01-342-5815
NSN 5996-01-172-0297
NSN 5990-01-225-9820
NSN 5905-00-167-6872
NSN 5895-01-157-9330
NSN 5990-00-842-6949
NSN 5910-01-442-6752
NSN 5945-01-142-9601
NSN 6610-00-337-9874
NSN 6130-01-100-1875
NSN 6145-01-295-9881