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 6610-01-531-6980
NSN 5915-01-513-6786
NSN 5999-01-055-5243
NSN 6240-01-449-2883
NSN 6645-00-530-3468
NSN 5925-01-378-6857
NSN 4140-00-927-1116
NSN 5910-01-325-6019
NSN 2925-01-424-0235
NSN 5835-01-416-6455
NSN 6685-01-313-7103
NSN 5945-00-840-5418