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 6135-01-066-6904
NSN 5895-00-113-7209
NSN 5985-00-348-9988
NSN 5999-01-267-2160
NSN 5945-00-377-0064
NSN 5999-00-451-0530
NSN 5985-01-099-6669
NSN 5915-01-155-1388
NSN 5930-01-656-1205
NSN 6320-01-270-1419
NSN 5965-01-469-2504
NSN 5998-00-433-2279