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 5930-01-196-0896
NSN 5920-00-951-5050
NSN 6320-00-432-2772
NSN 5965-01-422-1392
NSN 6150-00-466-2892
NSN 6105-01-169-1778
NSN 6105-01-577-1042
NSN 6135-01-196-7399
NSN 5965-01-659-4020
NSN 6150-01-463-8599
NSN 5990-00-901-2574
NSN 5835-01-163-4215