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 5998-00-126-7341
NSN 5960-01-306-3395
NSN 7035-01-292-2580
NSN 6610-00-008-6470
NSN 6220-01-223-3984
NSN 6145-01-014-6260
NSN 5999-00-585-3338
NSN 5960-00-055-8010
NSN 2925-01-264-5256
NSN 6130-01-185-7756
NSN 6645-01-515-9951
NSN 5925-00-499-2160