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 7035-01-471-0475
NSN 6220-01-025-5316
NSN 6220-00-358-9580
NSN 5950-00-469-3948
NSN 6135-01-164-3561
NSN 5999-01-434-2326
NSN 5985-01-085-6288
NSN 5945-01-307-9673
NSN 5905-01-415-2902
NSN 5999-01-102-8192
NSN 6110-01-447-4114
NSN 4140-01-142-2971