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 6135-01-573-7164
NSN 7035-01-086-8095
NSN 5998-01-406-0178
NSN 5998-01-631-2956
NSN 6320-00-456-2092
NSN 6110-01-007-9392
NSN 5920-00-322-8618
NSN 5905-01-436-8253
NSN 5990-00-226-1152
NSN 5945-00-518-5248
NSN 5965-01-179-3174
NSN 6685-01-444-3117