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 6145-00-009-9324
NSN 5950-01-473-4708
NSN 6130-00-959-8963
NSN 5985-01-281-7700
NSN 5985-01-457-7507
NSN 6105-01-544-5601
NSN 5999-01-452-8745
NSN 5975-00-200-2002
NSN 6150-01-158-9433
NSN 5998-00-466-2646
NSN 5895-00-339-8334
NSN 6685-01-026-0111