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 6150-01-464-9090
NSN 5998-01-050-7849
NSN 6320-00-422-1773
NSN 5855-00-832-9341
NSN 5950-01-420-7231
NSN 5920-01-222-3629
NSN 5855-01-512-1926
NSN 6240-01-311-8058
NSN 6610-00-968-8193
NSN 6110-01-571-7987
NSN 5998-01-486-6408
NSN 6320-01-420-0340