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 6110-00-271-9928
NSN 5975-01-258-4339
NSN 6320-00-483-0451
NSN 7035-00-465-3298
NSN 5985-00-943-7642
NSN 5950-01-394-5324
NSN 5935-00-224-4476
NSN 5920-01-156-4241
NSN 5935-01-386-5382
NSN 6135-01-462-6040
NSN 5925-00-982-6603
NSN 4140-01-432-5078