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 6240-00-054-6540
NSN 5950-00-227-3948
NSN 6105-01-065-3872
NSN 5920-01-293-2354
NSN 5835-01-316-3255
NSN 6110-00-353-0139
NSN 5990-00-033-8128
NSN 6320-01-498-4954
NSN 5960-01-109-3342
NSN 5835-01-519-2916
NSN 6135-00-461-3590
NSN 6645-00-658-7838