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 6110-01-359-9908
NSN 5985-01-619-5939
NSN 6650-01-064-8941
NSN 2925-01-182-0227
NSN 2925-00-347-7893
NSN 6135-00-968-8594
NSN 6610-00-433-3530
NSN 5985-01-212-2621
NSN 6135-01-532-0775
NSN 6150-00-158-0066
NSN 5925-00-421-6629
NSN 7035-01-344-8708