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 6135-00-078-9931
NSN 5996-00-160-1772
NSN 5999-01-079-0868
NSN 5835-01-441-4746
NSN 6610-00-285-5366
NSN 5895-01-409-2949
NSN 5975-01-556-6719
NSN 5996-00-932-1383
NSN 6150-01-449-2167
NSN 5920-00-230-9128
NSN 7035-01-501-0593
NSN 5935-00-528-2185