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 5920-01-486-1626
NSN 6150-01-328-1606
NSN 5895-00-435-2585
NSN 6610-00-299-1844
NSN 6685-00-284-2244
NSN 5835-00-554-0399
NSN 6320-01-422-1212
NSN 5895-01-324-5161
NSN 7035-01-412-8322
NSN 6645-01-412-4233
NSN 5990-01-281-9784
NSN 6610-01-544-3734