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 6130-01-156-0162
NSN 5835-00-113-6090
NSN 6105-01-642-6080
NSN 2925-01-371-6853
NSN 5990-00-238-3333
NSN 2925-01-501-1104
NSN 5999-00-499-6988
NSN 7035-00-360-2008
NSN 7035-01-211-1770
NSN 6150-01-440-9796
NSN 6130-00-461-3524
NSN 6645-00-183-8812