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 6110-00-955-0900
NSN 5960-00-808-8197
NSN 6150-01-059-8062
NSN 7035-01-449-1189
NSN 5920-01-632-2078
NSN 6130-01-464-0408
NSN 5996-01-258-1967
NSN 5905-01-259-5195
NSN 6150-01-168-8290
NSN 6135-01-219-8612
NSN 5998-01-068-1851
NSN 5910-01-100-9146