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 5999-01-296-2274
NSN 6130-01-610-1510
NSN 7035-00-896-3213
NSN 6320-00-218-6105
NSN 6145-01-345-7261
NSN 6105-01-347-8611
NSN 2925-00-355-5130
NSN 5990-01-649-4647
NSN 6135-01-056-4609
NSN 6105-01-421-2413
NSN 5990-01-227-6526
NSN 5950-01-445-3634