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 7035-01-146-7096
NSN 2925-01-408-6205
NSN 6110-01-068-4743
NSN 5855-00-586-6255
NSN 5930-01-362-8130
NSN 6685-00-877-3117
NSN 6110-01-437-2558
NSN 5998-01-066-6206
NSN 5910-01-562-3401
NSN 6620-00-862-5567
NSN 5910-01-562-8995
NSN 5925-00-153-4518