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 6220-01-578-7084
NSN 5965-01-589-3968
NSN 5920-00-584-4592
NSN 6105-01-069-3966
NSN 6135-01-480-8121
NSN 6150-00-518-1402
NSN 5925-01-085-6118
NSN 5998-00-612-8502
NSN 5910-01-461-7800
NSN 7035-01-644-1427
NSN 6610-00-186-9180
NSN 5975-00-125-6683