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 5835-01-141-8823
NSN 6135-01-342-3859
NSN 6135-01-351-2690
NSN 6135-00-437-5182
NSN 5935-00-165-2043
NSN 6610-01-287-8559
NSN 6145-00-011-2390
NSN 5920-01-296-8691
NSN 5855-01-382-8725
NSN 4140-01-101-9946
NSN 5990-00-338-9447
NSN 5965-01-221-0569