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 5935-00-188-8945
NSN 4140-00-276-9154
NSN 6145-00-950-9017
NSN 6145-00-553-8196
NSN 5895-00-118-1895
NSN 6220-01-438-5552
NSN 6150-00-155-3578
NSN 6135-01-079-7852
NSN 5985-01-463-8562
NSN 6105-00-553-8943
NSN 6220-01-467-2268
NSN 6150-00-891-7922