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 5950-00-518-1674
NSN 6110-01-013-9313
NSN 5915-01-466-6108
NSN 5915-01-076-4538
NSN 6150-00-434-1913
NSN 6220-00-871-8163
NSN 5998-01-367-6718
NSN 5910-01-494-8386
NSN 6220-01-526-9735
NSN 6130-01-251-7366
NSN 5905-01-016-3153
NSN 6320-00-394-8458