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 5910-01-371-6536
NSN 5925-01-145-5484
NSN 6610-00-617-3086
NSN 5990-00-140-4559
NSN 6320-01-425-1417
NSN 6130-01-305-5349
NSN 6320-00-036-3688
NSN 6145-00-434-7236
NSN 5855-01-512-1926
NSN 5950-00-076-6008
NSN 5915-00-112-3504
NSN 5915-00-291-3736