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 6240-00-222-9135
NSN 6650-01-433-3520
NSN 5930-01-446-7033
NSN 6620-01-012-2852
NSN 6135-01-106-7740
NSN 5855-01-187-2293
NSN 6150-00-161-6865
NSN 5895-00-707-6663
NSN 6130-01-442-8295
NSN 6110-00-968-8284
NSN 5975-01-397-5686
NSN 5985-00-254-1884