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 5998-01-054-3800
NSN 5920-01-231-3615
NSN 5975-01-288-1059
NSN 6620-00-145-3010
NSN 5925-01-350-4295
NSN 6220-01-476-6895
NSN 5975-01-446-0704
NSN 5945-00-619-3553
NSN 5920-00-263-2192
NSN 6620-01-558-6558
NSN 5910-00-116-4983
NSN 5960-01-389-9941