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 5930-01-632-2892
NSN 5990-01-388-0252
NSN 2925-00-516-8841
NSN 5835-00-275-0584
NSN 6145-01-322-6906
NSN 5930-01-377-8508
NSN 5998-01-152-2819
NSN 6610-00-564-1728
NSN 6650-01-406-5322
NSN 5910-01-029-6248
NSN 6685-01-522-8273
NSN 5985-01-303-2107