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 6645-00-137-1167
NSN 5935-01-425-2774
NSN 5925-01-284-3369
NSN 7035-00-059-7970
NSN 5996-00-472-5387
NSN 5915-01-582-1690
NSN 5945-00-835-3629
NSN 5945-00-131-2211
NSN 2925-01-185-9144
NSN 5996-00-185-1372
NSN 5855-00-014-5008
NSN 6110-01-371-1872