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 5835-00-833-7080
NSN 7035-01-028-4966
NSN 6650-01-660-1895
NSN 6220-00-051-4198
NSN 5990-00-212-4316
NSN 5895-01-031-8460
NSN 5905-01-164-3417
NSN 5910-00-339-2198
NSN 6240-01-034-5596
NSN 6240-00-954-7853
NSN 6240-01-263-8190
NSN 6650-01-383-2163