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 6130-00-052-2143
NSN 5930-01-603-1179
NSN 5990-00-947-6879
NSN 2925-00-233-5644
NSN 5998-01-239-1206
NSN 5910-01-612-8894
NSN 5915-01-153-0833
NSN 5996-01-599-1636
NSN 5925-01-344-8932
NSN 5935-01-281-2305
NSN 6105-00-248-5772
NSN 5925-01-323-6491