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 6240-01-355-9699
NSN 5975-01-435-4480
NSN 5965-01-063-7894
NSN 2925-01-137-4062
NSN 5998-01-322-7211
NSN 5999-01-260-2315
NSN 6645-01-413-0515
NSN 5835-01-584-1827
NSN 5935-00-655-4168
NSN 5835-01-090-6712
NSN 6110-01-128-7890
NSN 6685-01-346-7677