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 6135-00-866-2311
NSN 2925-00-149-0760
NSN 6130-00-344-2630
NSN 6620-01-456-0529
NSN 2925-01-032-3814
NSN 6145-01-216-8291
NSN 5965-01-473-0825
NSN 2925-01-629-9416
NSN 6240-01-454-1603
NSN 5975-01-208-6190
NSN 2925-01-039-6856
NSN 5920-00-980-4112