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 5915-01-180-0089
NSN 7035-01-364-8454
NSN 5895-01-360-6511
NSN 6645-00-372-2618
NSN 6110-01-633-9660
NSN 6135-00-921-6487
NSN 6145-01-426-8976
NSN 6240-00-849-5026
NSN 5895-01-185-2981
NSN 6150-01-135-9818
NSN 6110-01-511-3029
NSN 6645-00-843-8837