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 6685-01-634-0611
NSN 5945-00-254-8281
NSN 5920-01-475-5047
NSN 6685-00-143-7281
NSN 4140-00-789-6935
NSN 6220-00-215-6358
NSN 6145-01-452-9551
NSN 6105-00-007-3365
NSN 5996-00-221-7663
NSN 5950-01-103-0421
NSN 6320-01-462-3555
NSN 6220-00-406-5045