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 5910-01-089-7080
NSN 6610-01-529-0311
NSN 5910-01-174-4500
NSN 6650-00-078-5773
NSN 5915-01-371-2906
NSN 6110-00-367-2427
NSN 6145-00-310-7443
NSN 6110-00-536-4962
NSN 5895-01-352-0166
NSN 6105-00-899-3812
NSN 5925-01-510-6291
NSN 5935-01-436-5987