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 6135-01-508-3784
NSN 6320-01-501-7935
NSN 6110-01-440-9158
NSN 6145-00-588-0794
NSN 5910-01-167-5950
NSN 5985-01-314-5284
NSN 5975-01-130-4268
NSN 5920-01-109-9998
NSN 4140-01-546-6150
NSN 6240-01-210-4217
NSN 5930-00-347-4890
NSN 5835-00-761-5615