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 5920-01-410-2893
NSN 5990-01-449-7090
NSN 6135-01-131-9352
NSN 6145-00-166-7950
NSN 6105-00-257-2505
NSN 5935-00-931-8769
NSN 6650-00-498-6336
NSN 6620-01-392-6180
NSN 5960-01-113-4839
NSN 6130-01-142-2698
NSN 5895-01-487-3123
NSN 5835-00-419-0575