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 5930-01-359-7744
NSN 5895-00-368-9243
NSN 2925-01-633-0225
NSN 5950-00-842-5043
NSN 6685-01-284-6889
NSN 7035-01-106-3476
NSN 5905-01-089-8427
NSN 6150-01-264-2555
NSN 5935-01-105-8997
NSN 6650-01-143-1116
NSN 5835-01-258-5597
NSN 5920-00-797-7371