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 5835-01-572-9308
NSN 6130-01-273-1973
NSN 6685-00-937-9157
NSN 5835-01-653-7806
NSN 6620-01-578-7561
NSN 6320-01-247-0898
NSN 6320-01-089-9086
NSN 6220-01-485-2381
NSN 6685-01-100-1071
NSN 5855-01-143-4469
NSN 5935-01-103-8046
NSN 6650-01-481-8009