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 5945-00-062-0188
NSN 6220-00-602-1899
NSN 6150-01-641-6164
NSN 6240-00-252-7138
NSN 5855-01-446-7574
NSN 2925-01-633-4048
NSN 6130-01-558-8006
NSN 5925-01-514-7048
NSN 5950-00-299-2874
NSN 5996-01-472-2112
NSN 5965-01-276-9586
NSN 5965-01-435-1309