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 6240-01-392-5991
NSN 5999-00-329-0784
NSN 5985-00-518-1748
NSN 6620-01-422-7012
NSN 5925-01-543-2640
NSN 5945-01-557-8516
NSN 5996-01-261-6275
NSN 6135-00-913-2062
NSN 7035-01-633-9537
NSN 5920-01-013-8594
NSN 2925-00-660-8131
NSN 6645-01-471-4960