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 6150-01-481-3735
NSN 5985-00-943-3533
NSN 6610-00-391-7888
NSN 5960-00-061-1171
NSN 5998-01-315-1065
NSN 6220-00-992-3015
NSN 6610-01-648-9997
NSN 6145-00-245-6645
NSN 5835-00-350-3703
NSN 6685-00-774-9682
NSN 5975-01-201-4108
NSN 6650-01-174-5788