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 5999-01-429-6888
NSN 6685-01-384-3900
NSN 5915-00-110-4145
NSN 6145-01-104-5084
NSN 4140-00-076-3380
NSN 5990-01-443-2931
NSN 5895-00-370-8115
NSN 5990-01-546-1649
NSN 5925-00-721-3206
NSN 6110-01-657-5296
NSN 5985-00-347-9770
NSN 6105-01-556-1233