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 6610-00-063-4978
NSN 6685-01-168-8391
NSN 5985-01-104-6065
NSN 5910-01-212-7247
NSN 6110-01-442-6665
NSN 6240-01-172-4604
NSN 2925-00-400-5634
NSN 6685-00-831-5989
NSN 6685-01-599-9831
NSN 5975-01-361-0459
NSN 6145-00-813-8339
NSN 5910-01-320-5191