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 6135-00-180-5125
NSN 5935-01-202-8822
NSN 6220-00-187-6548
NSN 6135-01-100-3593
NSN 5960-01-493-3948
NSN 5990-01-223-9414
NSN 5996-00-950-9486
NSN 6240-00-235-5159
NSN 5990-01-307-4489
NSN 5910-01-125-2333
NSN 6240-01-102-1555
NSN 5998-01-528-5560