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 6135-00-255-1340
NSN 6220-00-153-9704
NSN 5950-01-631-4279
NSN 5965-01-597-8749
NSN 5975-01-411-3684
NSN 6105-01-656-4783
NSN 6685-00-656-5057
NSN 6145-00-635-9957
NSN 5960-01-141-3252
NSN 6130-01-135-7890
NSN 6150-00-189-0292
NSN 6145-01-575-3893