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 7035-01-449-1846
NSN 5960-01-243-0007
NSN 6220-01-412-1487
NSN 6610-01-204-7281
NSN 6685-01-195-6549
NSN 5950-01-567-9488
NSN 5960-01-062-4667
NSN 5975-01-319-6892
NSN 5965-01-444-1322
NSN 6620-01-369-5876
NSN 7035-01-068-3300
NSN 5999-00-406-4596