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 6130-01-165-2130
NSN 5985-01-247-1401
NSN 5975-00-445-9926
NSN 6650-00-981-9501
NSN 5996-00-211-7010
NSN 5925-01-206-8136
NSN 6145-00-141-8095
NSN 6130-00-233-7639
NSN 6145-00-705-6686
NSN 5915-01-261-7839
NSN 6150-01-089-1882
NSN 5960-01-320-9779