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 5935-01-229-3983
NSN 5930-01-278-9966
NSN 6645-00-152-1702
NSN 6620-01-371-5040
NSN 5935-01-573-6824
NSN 6645-00-171-9251
NSN 5935-01-428-4470
NSN 5975-00-672-1476
NSN 5905-00-594-8102
NSN 5895-01-047-0233
NSN 5895-00-292-2872
NSN 7035-01-292-7439