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 6145-01-554-8065
NSN 6135-00-477-8847
NSN 5915-01-437-1519
NSN 6240-01-485-3116
NSN 5975-01-223-2470
NSN 6150-00-998-3448
NSN 5960-00-467-7400
NSN 5998-01-484-9764
NSN 2925-01-180-7793
NSN 5910-01-240-1195
NSN 5999-01-069-3223
NSN 6135-01-098-3020