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 6610-00-292-9895
NSN 5999-01-567-4610
NSN 5998-01-081-0435
NSN 5945-01-396-0626
NSN 6150-01-443-1897
NSN 6105-01-567-4454
NSN 5930-01-367-6355
NSN 4140-01-414-5320
NSN 5905-00-487-4993
NSN 5910-01-383-0307
NSN 6105-01-217-4530
NSN 5935-01-039-3341