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 6685-01-463-7229
NSN 5985-01-392-0926
NSN 6130-01-634-0603
NSN 5910-01-145-5166
NSN 6650-00-202-4540
NSN 5950-01-177-8732
NSN 2925-01-648-6859
NSN 5835-01-163-4215
NSN 6135-00-906-0984
NSN 5855-00-361-0167
NSN 5960-01-201-5804
NSN 6650-01-588-4678