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 7035-01-189-6096
NSN 6240-00-892-6175
NSN 5985-00-155-5991
NSN 6110-01-185-5040
NSN 6620-00-098-5652
NSN 6105-01-281-0310
NSN 6110-00-241-1554
NSN 5910-01-628-7499
NSN 5915-01-089-4050
NSN 6145-00-177-4731
NSN 5965-00-636-2264
NSN 6135-01-415-1163