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 5915-00-597-2369
NSN 6150-01-037-0380
NSN 6130-00-198-4997
NSN 5985-01-065-6218
NSN 6220-01-334-2251
NSN 5985-01-507-0367
NSN 5945-01-016-2747
NSN 6135-01-633-8502
NSN 6620-00-868-7104
NSN 5910-01-316-5857
NSN 6650-00-269-5000
NSN 5935-01-605-3463