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 5999-01-563-7527
NSN 6645-01-044-6376
NSN 5910-00-153-2609
NSN 5910-01-454-7990
NSN 6320-01-054-3046
NSN 6110-00-212-9130
NSN 5935-01-054-3862
NSN 5920-01-380-7802
NSN 2925-00-138-5542
NSN 7035-01-222-2534
NSN 5935-00-579-5638
NSN 5915-01-354-6109