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 6650-00-921-1037
NSN 4140-00-400-4872
NSN 6110-01-152-1097
NSN 5990-01-553-6859
NSN 6130-00-443-6226
NSN 6105-01-363-1288
NSN 5895-01-148-2156
NSN 5960-01-039-0093
NSN 5915-01-186-4716
NSN 6150-00-567-4020
NSN 5935-01-437-2535
NSN 5945-01-389-8703