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 6135-01-110-9470
NSN 5930-01-549-3603
NSN 5920-00-592-4611
NSN 6645-01-188-5237
NSN 6645-01-217-8809
NSN 4140-01-050-9739
NSN 5975-00-070-9553
NSN 5925-01-218-5420
NSN 6220-00-806-7666
NSN 6220-01-442-5466
NSN 2925-01-283-6740
NSN 5998-00-009-1115