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 6135-00-134-6648
NSN 5975-01-569-0260
NSN 5895-01-333-5877
NSN 5910-01-306-5250
NSN 6220-01-435-4225
NSN 5960-01-112-6390
NSN 5905-01-644-7942
NSN 5998-01-331-7542
NSN 6610-01-525-8235
NSN 5950-01-634-0677
NSN 6650-01-472-2244
NSN 5960-01-595-6515