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 6150-00-198-4688
NSN 5910-00-726-2532
NSN 5835-01-625-8604
NSN 7035-01-645-6242
NSN 6685-01-634-0611
NSN 5910-01-167-9155
NSN 5950-01-064-3228
NSN 5905-00-876-0532
NSN 6135-00-942-7970
NSN 6645-01-473-3752
NSN 6320-01-173-7950
NSN 5945-00-480-5164