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 6650-01-582-5199
NSN 6685-01-492-5340
NSN 6320-00-994-0179
NSN 6240-01-160-7934
NSN 5985-00-628-9422
NSN 6685-01-321-3327
NSN 5990-00-226-7894
NSN 6135-01-100-3593
NSN 4140-01-478-0567
NSN 2925-01-139-5144
NSN 5975-01-646-0874
NSN 6645-01-572-7175