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 6130-01-195-6510
NSN 6240-00-297-3919
NSN 6240-00-643-4532
NSN 6150-01-540-1109
NSN 6320-01-652-3806
NSN 5920-01-407-3143
NSN 6105-00-533-9650
NSN 6650-00-224-3223
NSN 6145-01-484-8735
NSN 5910-00-143-4984
NSN 6150-01-477-0260
NSN 5935-00-553-5672