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 6150-01-406-2070
NSN 5855-01-120-2912
NSN 6620-00-792-0795
NSN 5930-00-155-5917
NSN 7035-01-312-8573
NSN 6320-01-272-7072
NSN 6220-01-621-8968
NSN 6110-00-247-0211
NSN 5920-01-498-4690
NSN 5935-00-427-4414
NSN 5935-01-499-4740
NSN 6240-01-212-9586