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 7035-01-041-2754
NSN 6130-01-481-1853
NSN 5950-01-046-5152
NSN 6150-01-505-3198
NSN 6685-01-166-9508
NSN 6610-00-155-1334
NSN 6150-01-383-0804
NSN 5935-01-020-7578
NSN 5925-00-089-9928
NSN 5975-01-567-8855
NSN 5960-01-399-4327
NSN 5930-00-939-6397