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 6110-01-162-6946
NSN 6685-00-504-1911
NSN 5985-01-394-2036
NSN 5930-01-228-9088
NSN 7035-01-346-8800
NSN 6650-01-115-2766
NSN 6135-00-812-9039
NSN 5998-00-270-6931
NSN 5935-01-559-7564
NSN 6645-01-084-9074
NSN 5945-01-433-9760
NSN 6220-00-156-0860