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 5920-01-235-0704
NSN 6135-00-107-6662
NSN 6150-01-581-9891
NSN 5975-01-440-1592
NSN 5960-01-632-6576
NSN 5920-01-583-5670
NSN 6650-01-013-9334
NSN 6110-01-284-6524
NSN 6130-01-526-4109
NSN 6110-01-013-9313
NSN 6650-00-754-2276
NSN 6145-00-370-1964