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 6645-00-092-5091
NSN 6105-00-927-6009
NSN 5910-01-065-7564
NSN 5920-01-364-9528
NSN 5960-01-171-1066
NSN 6145-01-194-3086
NSN 7035-01-646-5888
NSN 5945-01-098-2150
NSN 5996-00-136-6730
NSN 6135-00-274-4037
NSN 4140-01-078-5224
NSN 6135-01-275-9767