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 5895-01-205-8963
NSN 6135-01-068-0119
NSN 5985-01-599-5265
NSN 4140-01-029-4211
NSN 5965-01-074-3083
NSN 2925-01-076-5219
NSN 6650-00-299-9681
NSN 5835-01-046-5632
NSN 5895-01-407-4213
NSN 5895-00-633-0431
NSN 5925-01-261-9043
NSN 6220-01-469-6731