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 5905-01-601-6653
NSN 7035-01-487-6481
NSN 5835-00-251-9138
NSN 5999-01-173-1890
NSN 6145-01-602-9132
NSN 5935-00-161-3429
NSN 4140-01-487-0087
NSN 5999-00-615-8184
NSN 6650-00-952-2754
NSN 5910-01-026-0386
NSN 6110-01-480-7224
NSN 6145-01-088-7495