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 6105-00-324-4096
NSN 5925-01-085-6444
NSN 6130-01-155-7017
NSN 5935-00-689-5788
NSN 5998-01-430-2773
NSN 5910-01-381-0709
NSN 6150-01-116-0428
NSN 4140-00-501-7833
NSN 6320-01-516-3836
NSN 6650-00-299-9681
NSN 6620-01-612-9030
NSN 6130-01-634-0603