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 6685-01-086-3821
NSN 6135-00-777-5562
NSN 6220-00-296-4101
NSN 6240-01-010-2991
NSN 6130-01-322-7695
NSN 6105-01-157-3021
NSN 5975-01-591-2103
NSN 7035-01-298-5154
NSN 4140-01-058-6603
NSN 6150-00-502-2390
NSN 6110-00-153-0936
NSN 5835-01-326-3664