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 5895-01-164-9599
NSN 7035-01-486-4118
NSN 6650-00-279-5741
NSN 5935-01-255-3669
NSN 5915-00-410-8874
NSN 7035-00-763-5219
NSN 5895-01-595-9684
NSN 6220-00-226-1994
NSN 5960-00-351-4821
NSN 6240-01-101-6616
NSN 6130-01-286-9580
NSN 6150-01-187-0425