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 6685-01-446-5096
NSN 5935-01-094-6372
NSN 6130-00-285-8119
NSN 5895-00-288-1798
NSN 6320-00-646-3311
NSN 6130-01-581-1277
NSN 6110-00-271-9928
NSN 6685-00-807-5952
NSN 5996-01-651-4195
NSN 6145-00-960-7318
NSN 5960-00-254-4271
NSN 5950-01-267-3455