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 6240-01-085-7216
NSN 6145-01-181-6198
NSN 6110-01-054-3032
NSN 5998-00-165-3862
NSN 6240-00-818-1364
NSN 5996-00-246-2528
NSN 5895-01-501-4485
NSN 6610-00-468-1958
NSN 5975-01-571-4171
NSN 2925-00-706-5902
NSN 7035-01-265-0216
NSN 6240-00-456-2578