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 5998-00-477-6211
NSN 5998-01-046-4917
NSN 6150-00-643-5281
NSN 4140-00-079-8453
NSN 6150-01-264-9862
NSN 5915-01-150-9289
NSN 5925-01-358-8780
NSN 6240-01-410-8958
NSN 6105-01-044-3404
NSN 5920-01-510-9172
NSN 5895-00-919-6526
NSN 6145-01-400-1938