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 5965-01-150-1920
NSN 7035-01-512-1826
NSN 6150-00-408-4740
NSN 5910-00-233-6104
NSN 2925-01-109-1518
NSN 6130-00-087-7288
NSN 5975-01-215-1205
NSN 5975-01-565-6203
NSN 5855-01-070-8084
NSN 5905-00-549-5397
NSN 4140-01-447-3141
NSN 6220-01-532-6880