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 5998-00-596-1377
NSN 6110-01-523-4106
NSN 5996-01-622-3519
NSN 5950-01-261-6782
NSN 7035-01-534-9388
NSN 5999-00-208-3797
NSN 6145-00-753-2264
NSN 5915-01-647-4236
NSN 6320-00-036-3688
NSN 5960-00-778-6167
NSN 5965-00-478-3442
NSN 6110-00-253-1881