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 6685-00-912-9151
NSN 5990-01-378-7349
NSN 5910-01-450-8218
NSN 5935-01-303-6111
NSN 5996-01-515-6411
NSN 6240-01-422-2760
NSN 5910-01-171-9405
NSN 5965-01-170-9891
NSN 6240-01-442-7746
NSN 5910-01-383-6749
NSN 6105-01-042-4792
NSN 5935-01-577-5402