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 6145-01-145-5177
NSN 5855-00-631-4565
NSN 5945-00-558-8549
NSN 2925-00-938-3797
NSN 5960-01-370-4285
NSN 6240-01-414-3873
NSN 5950-01-087-8460
NSN 6110-01-532-3306
NSN 6620-01-032-3937
NSN 6150-01-163-2791
NSN 6645-01-210-5649
NSN 6240-00-071-1280