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 6110-00-602-2225
NSN 5945-01-165-3921
NSN 5930-01-288-4397
NSN 5925-00-984-7388
NSN 6620-01-246-4314
NSN 6105-00-093-6106
NSN 5998-00-505-4303
NSN 5996-00-959-5944
NSN 6610-01-073-7459
NSN 6110-01-217-2870
NSN 5910-00-764-4627
NSN 6130-00-900-4758