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 5925-01-134-2747
NSN 6650-01-627-5855
NSN 6320-01-162-5977
NSN 6650-01-045-5494
NSN 5925-01-169-8205
NSN 5925-00-309-2404
NSN 5930-00-915-1408
NSN 6110-00-221-8559
NSN 2925-01-320-6512
NSN 5996-01-218-0522
NSN 6610-01-514-0745
NSN 5999-00-243-2552