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 6320-01-564-0893
NSN 5895-01-121-4435
NSN 5920-01-066-6926
NSN 5945-01-390-8300
NSN 5950-01-500-1369
NSN 6150-01-417-3103
NSN 5935-00-432-6622
NSN 5920-01-143-5002
NSN 5950-01-388-9685
NSN 5975-01-573-0794
NSN 6685-01-632-5138
NSN 6145-01-156-9587