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 5960-00-148-4493
NSN 5835-00-823-6116
NSN 5975-01-645-8046
NSN 6150-00-808-1134
NSN 5935-01-161-4727
NSN 6105-01-065-7023
NSN 6150-01-269-3038
NSN 5905-01-198-0092
NSN 6240-01-563-7689
NSN 5960-01-031-7992
NSN 5920-01-194-4499
NSN 6110-00-758-2051