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 5915-00-124-8100
NSN 7035-01-534-6391
NSN 7035-01-182-6500
NSN 6240-00-133-7726
NSN 5975-01-462-5846
NSN 5990-01-154-7296
NSN 5990-01-059-0947
NSN 5855-01-261-5495
NSN 5935-01-174-1235
NSN 5835-01-469-6706
NSN 5935-00-050-9162
NSN 6620-00-252-6425