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 5999-00-906-8541
NSN 6240-00-929-0585
NSN 5925-01-400-3002
NSN 6135-00-422-3967
NSN 6145-01-627-7370
NSN 4140-00-545-3422
NSN 5985-00-409-5604
NSN 6685-00-451-6941
NSN 6620-01-057-2580
NSN 5855-00-879-7245
NSN 5996-01-011-7470
NSN 5930-01-613-3397