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 5935-01-623-0817
NSN 5996-01-164-4871
NSN 2925-01-054-3190
NSN 5996-01-216-0702
NSN 5945-00-874-3474
NSN 6685-01-063-7425
NSN 6150-00-007-1774
NSN 5920-00-371-1191
NSN 6620-01-438-0415
NSN 5965-01-050-7055
NSN 6650-00-006-9650
NSN 6645-01-485-6536