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 6105-01-152-2513
NSN 5960-01-189-5712
NSN 5855-00-908-9314
NSN 5915-00-223-0940
NSN 5925-01-332-8371
NSN 5920-01-275-4889
NSN 5910-01-062-2344
NSN 6620-01-367-0844
NSN 6620-01-327-4111
NSN 2925-01-262-1418
NSN 5935-01-359-4827
NSN 2925-01-041-2360