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 7035-00-235-3529
NSN 6320-01-116-3980
NSN 6110-01-090-0804
NSN 5960-01-641-5493
NSN 5935-00-129-6668
NSN 5915-01-122-8946
NSN 5998-01-204-8105
NSN 5915-01-227-2337
NSN 6135-01-122-4448
NSN 5930-00-092-9600
NSN 5935-01-451-4297
NSN 5915-01-581-8958