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 6145-00-815-7154
NSN 6130-01-563-7528
NSN 5915-00-906-2214
NSN 5965-00-589-1228
NSN 5985-00-403-1083
NSN 6685-00-284-1048
NSN 5960-00-275-7497
NSN 5975-00-583-8625
NSN 5910-01-479-9593
NSN 6145-01-596-1221
NSN 5950-01-461-3109
NSN 6610-01-456-9872