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 5835-01-236-6514
NSN 6320-01-067-0474
NSN 6685-01-062-2151
NSN 6320-01-495-6893
NSN 6610-01-067-6591
NSN 6610-01-550-2368
NSN 5965-01-347-5878
NSN 5950-01-432-1331
NSN 5910-01-213-9055
NSN 7035-01-151-0265
NSN 6685-01-499-6864
NSN 6105-00-531-4690