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 5915-00-811-1128
NSN 6320-01-487-0336
NSN 5855-01-426-5589
NSN 5965-00-275-0491
NSN 6240-01-433-8639
NSN 6650-01-406-5322
NSN 5960-01-041-6806
NSN 6620-00-417-6285
NSN 5935-01-531-4115
NSN 6645-00-313-2324
NSN 5930-01-186-6762
NSN 6645-01-459-7788