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 6110-01-416-9480
NSN 6320-00-483-0451
NSN 5910-01-443-9932
NSN 5910-01-142-9577
NSN 5990-00-247-0975
NSN 5920-00-727-5862
NSN 6685-01-607-5732
NSN 5930-01-473-4842
NSN 5975-01-528-4316
NSN 5999-01-325-5335
NSN 6130-01-388-2092
NSN 6105-01-037-9577