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 5835-01-478-0157
NSN 5945-00-898-9757
NSN 6130-01-106-4267
NSN 5910-00-196-1373
NSN 6320-00-593-0379
NSN 5985-00-823-5396
NSN 5925-01-232-7632
NSN 5835-01-485-0210
NSN 5999-00-411-1978
NSN 5925-01-658-2270
NSN 6240-01-164-5019
NSN 6145-00-613-8489