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 5945-00-775-9362
NSN 6620-01-207-0667
NSN 6645-00-726-2716
NSN 5996-00-489-9635
NSN 6130-00-448-1133
NSN 5905-00-844-3631
NSN 6645-01-395-2989
NSN 6240-01-189-2367
NSN 6685-01-482-9580
NSN 6105-00-099-1989
NSN 6610-00-398-0104
NSN 5999-01-385-6712