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 6105-00-837-4135
NSN 5950-00-552-5077
NSN 5998-00-441-7541
NSN 6110-00-587-5241
NSN 7035-01-302-5359
NSN 5930-00-126-9660
NSN 6130-01-432-3824
NSN 5990-00-060-0012
NSN 6135-00-613-1068
NSN 4140-01-435-4887
NSN 5905-00-688-7497
NSN 5915-00-587-8811