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 6610-01-244-7192
NSN 5920-01-634-0250
NSN 5915-00-654-3155
NSN 6130-00-843-5087
NSN 5925-01-478-7743
NSN 5975-01-340-9630
NSN 5915-01-617-6802
NSN 6145-00-598-9397
NSN 2925-01-486-2499
NSN 6145-01-615-7061
NSN 5960-01-283-2281
NSN 6220-01-578-7497