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 6135-01-312-1040
NSN 5835-00-933-9609
NSN 5935-01-515-4274
NSN 5996-01-170-1915
NSN 6220-01-335-0201
NSN 5950-01-228-8727
NSN 5895-01-521-8691
NSN 5965-00-261-8086
NSN 5999-01-088-4916
NSN 6105-01-338-5444
NSN 6145-01-473-0533
NSN 6145-01-461-7192