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 6105-01-357-6320
NSN 6220-00-019-6300
NSN 5945-01-296-9154
NSN 5960-01-373-5313
NSN 6110-01-053-6492
NSN 5925-01-212-7248
NSN 6220-01-422-2585
NSN 5996-00-991-9532
NSN 2925-00-005-1618
NSN 5996-00-249-8956
NSN 6145-01-184-8477
NSN 5905-01-571-8206