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 5920-01-246-4330
NSN 6685-01-242-8429
NSN 6685-01-323-5272
NSN 6620-00-849-9940
NSN 5985-01-504-0401
NSN 5925-01-457-2091
NSN 6145-00-553-8196
NSN 5945-01-422-4565
NSN 6135-01-048-0910
NSN 6240-01-602-8238
NSN 6150-00-332-2053
NSN 6220-01-486-5316