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 6610-00-832-3137
NSN 6135-01-513-3581
NSN 5925-01-525-7060
NSN 5960-01-182-3676
NSN 6650-00-193-7358
NSN 6685-00-105-1425
NSN 5905-01-577-0026
NSN 6145-01-513-1323
NSN 5835-01-390-4667
NSN 4140-01-202-7853
NSN 5910-01-470-8174
NSN 6105-01-442-3465