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 7035-00-946-2642
NSN 6620-01-219-9413
NSN 5960-01-179-9350
NSN 6145-01-406-5051
NSN 6620-01-374-0592
NSN 5990-01-368-8208
NSN 5998-00-410-7347
NSN 5920-00-901-9940
NSN 6110-01-192-4904
NSN 6110-00-946-3060
NSN 6220-00-425-6118
NSN 5965-01-386-2988