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 5905-01-535-9756
NSN 5930-01-231-8138
NSN 5925-00-721-2533
NSN 7035-01-531-2273
NSN 6220-01-579-3138
NSN 6240-00-630-8069
NSN 4140-01-176-6490
NSN 5960-01-316-0767
NSN 6610-01-113-2726
NSN 5999-01-012-2449
NSN 5935-01-176-8903
NSN 5915-00-619-3987