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 5975-00-500-0166
NSN 6650-01-310-7403
NSN 5935-01-459-7895
NSN 5920-00-283-6386
NSN 5925-01-449-7508
NSN 5965-01-443-3000
NSN 6240-01-401-5340
NSN 6320-00-937-5625
NSN 6220-01-507-1537
NSN 5855-01-330-3669
NSN 6220-01-476-0956
NSN 5905-01-499-5488