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 6135-00-377-9165
NSN 5905-01-261-3405
NSN 6150-00-216-6542
NSN 6150-01-352-5248
NSN 6610-00-809-0978
NSN 5835-01-343-7516
NSN 6240-00-126-4551
NSN 6105-01-310-7588
NSN 5960-01-311-5817
NSN 5999-00-190-4304
NSN 6620-01-569-4621
NSN 6145-01-259-7055