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 6135-01-127-0173
NSN 6130-01-273-2896
NSN 5950-01-040-8977
NSN 5975-00-481-0511
NSN 2925-00-149-0760
NSN 5975-01-357-3207
NSN 6650-01-139-6467
NSN 5950-01-008-1996
NSN 6320-01-081-7748
NSN 7035-01-604-9813
NSN 5985-00-824-3586
NSN 5855-01-472-8320