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 6130-01-542-9026
NSN 5905-01-554-1884
NSN 5920-01-451-2482
NSN 5998-00-126-3382
NSN 5998-00-875-2833
NSN 6110-00-718-2264
NSN 6645-01-006-6735
NSN 5998-01-371-3094
NSN 6105-01-327-1195
NSN 5855-00-079-2370
NSN 2925-01-259-0785
NSN 5895-01-121-2402