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 5935-00-935-5769
NSN 6320-01-173-7950
NSN 7035-00-902-8995
NSN 6105-00-288-5872
NSN 5920-01-504-0732
NSN 7035-00-337-8745
NSN 6135-01-319-5567
NSN 6645-01-032-5337
NSN 2925-00-110-4217
NSN 5996-00-550-7606
NSN 6105-00-664-1292
NSN 6650-01-310-2525