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 6320-00-149-7570
NSN 5855-00-933-9978
NSN 6650-00-954-4428
NSN 5895-01-420-1584
NSN 6320-00-583-3105
NSN 5925-00-333-1584
NSN 6610-00-009-2736
NSN 6135-01-479-9790
NSN 5925-01-031-5937
NSN 5960-01-445-3622
NSN 6130-00-655-3084
NSN 6145-00-399-5201