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 6130-01-364-1751
NSN 6135-00-248-4102
NSN 6135-01-552-1568
NSN 6650-01-081-8801
NSN 5960-01-438-0245
NSN 6240-00-232-1093
NSN 6150-01-281-2764
NSN 5990-00-959-3312
NSN 5975-00-081-2171
NSN 5975-01-655-4265
NSN 5910-01-278-9950
NSN 5950-01-030-7038