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 5925-00-549-9824
NSN 5998-00-260-9515
NSN 6620-01-541-4465
NSN 6135-00-948-7061
NSN 6240-01-563-3381
NSN 5985-01-224-7522
NSN 5945-01-527-0264
NSN 6610-00-536-4977
NSN 5996-00-036-5935
NSN 5915-01-123-9670
NSN 6110-01-396-7693
NSN 5950-00-961-1209