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 5960-01-267-6139
NSN 6685-00-642-0533
NSN 5990-01-322-9781
NSN 6240-00-221-0859
NSN 6320-01-606-2508
NSN 6240-01-391-0399
NSN 5855-01-492-3497
NSN 5985-01-399-7516
NSN 5998-01-178-8266
NSN 5999-00-206-7317
NSN 5935-01-187-1684
NSN 5920-01-063-7799