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 7035-01-068-5077
NSN 6650-00-943-3889
NSN 5925-01-144-0445
NSN 5910-00-451-7508
NSN 6130-01-330-6055
NSN 6240-00-872-3365
NSN 6105-01-529-8720
NSN 2925-01-556-0333
NSN 5835-01-296-8146
NSN 5996-01-162-6613
NSN 5996-01-318-7245
NSN 5925-01-167-5112