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 5835-01-644-8013
NSN 5915-01-072-4348
NSN 7035-01-652-8586
NSN 5915-01-552-8989
NSN 5950-01-588-3406
NSN 6320-01-374-9924
NSN 6320-01-466-4175
NSN 2925-01-328-4394
NSN 5835-01-578-3443
NSN 5998-00-273-1684
NSN 5960-00-808-8197
NSN 6110-00-111-2761