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 5920-01-513-2761
NSN 5895-01-542-5206
NSN 5998-01-273-7897
NSN 6150-01-090-0237
NSN 7035-01-028-4966
NSN 6150-01-313-7430
NSN 6105-01-499-4154
NSN 6105-00-466-9880
NSN 5996-00-087-6714
NSN 6685-01-505-6571
NSN 7035-01-080-3392
NSN 6130-01-574-7481