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 5920-00-185-5801
NSN 5935-01-533-6804
NSN 6135-01-071-4923
NSN 5855-01-465-9479
NSN 2925-00-646-6099
NSN 5945-00-227-7303
NSN 6645-01-613-7389
NSN 2925-01-411-8002
NSN 5996-01-573-3119
NSN 5945-00-541-7833
NSN 7035-00-445-9657
NSN 6610-00-388-0094