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 6105-00-756-5206
NSN 5835-01-442-6482
NSN 5895-01-259-9983
NSN 5985-01-333-3058
NSN 6650-00-849-5581
NSN 6620-01-474-4951
NSN 6145-01-315-1620
NSN 6220-01-494-9356
NSN 2925-00-391-0331
NSN 5965-01-631-8522
NSN 6145-00-836-9333
NSN 6110-01-276-0009