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 5950-01-495-0873
NSN 5835-01-482-1591
NSN 5895-01-085-4318
NSN 5915-00-233-6346
NSN 6620-00-246-5159
NSN 5910-01-152-6987
NSN 6650-00-455-1470
NSN 6240-01-313-9689
NSN 5915-00-619-1545
NSN 6610-01-152-2821
NSN 5920-01-210-7648
NSN 6320-00-116-3658