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 6130-01-245-9226
NSN 5905-00-523-8458
NSN 5999-01-368-9625
NSN 5998-01-188-2141
NSN 4140-01-224-3803
NSN 6145-00-050-1484
NSN 6645-01-481-9140
NSN 6220-00-983-6920
NSN 6135-01-299-0778
NSN 2925-01-511-5359
NSN 4140-01-386-4476
NSN 2925-01-152-8618