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 5835-00-752-6065
NSN 5910-01-463-3154
NSN 5996-00-890-5254
NSN 5905-01-114-3363
NSN 5910-00-284-7297
NSN 6685-01-079-0270
NSN 2925-01-259-7092
NSN 5920-01-114-3507
NSN 6110-01-195-3631
NSN 5910-00-198-9779
NSN 6110-00-051-4427
NSN 6135-01-534-3007