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 5975-01-156-8968
NSN 4140-00-132-5191
NSN 6620-01-352-5640
NSN 6150-01-513-1140
NSN 6220-01-367-6411
NSN 6145-00-939-4968
NSN 5895-00-862-2489
NSN 5945-01-634-0588
NSN 5990-01-472-2447
NSN 5960-01-253-2333
NSN 5965-00-246-5612
NSN 7035-01-411-6062