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 6150-01-349-1012
NSN 5925-01-267-4587
NSN 5975-01-573-7807
NSN 2925-01-153-7794
NSN 6645-00-351-8580
NSN 5960-01-096-3464
NSN 5990-01-259-7138
NSN 6240-01-062-4517
NSN 5835-00-870-7034
NSN 6610-00-937-3798
NSN 5990-01-462-6961
NSN 6320-01-125-3361