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 6610-00-110-9455
NSN 5915-01-092-3995
NSN 6685-01-575-9269
NSN 5945-01-408-5522
NSN 5935-01-116-3722
NSN 6240-00-643-4532
NSN 5998-01-430-7248
NSN 5920-01-276-9071
NSN 5998-01-459-2048
NSN 6650-01-565-5984
NSN 6685-01-550-9608
NSN 7035-01-155-0153