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 5920-01-555-6944
NSN 5895-01-122-7944
NSN 6135-01-650-6529
NSN 6110-00-812-9201
NSN 6150-01-150-4059
NSN 6650-00-990-9541
NSN 5950-00-992-9015
NSN 6110-01-423-1655
NSN 4140-00-508-3206
NSN 7035-00-003-7518
NSN 6110-01-257-1831
NSN 2925-01-199-7394