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 6645-01-366-4344
NSN 6135-00-128-1633
NSN 7035-01-590-6064
NSN 6145-00-633-5159
NSN 6130-01-174-4208
NSN 5998-01-305-7760
NSN 4140-01-060-2960
NSN 5835-00-470-4295
NSN 4140-01-591-3247
NSN 5905-00-936-7585
NSN 5975-00-583-8625
NSN 5960-00-265-7576