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 6105-01-127-8408
NSN 5935-00-700-5496
NSN 5985-01-621-8725
NSN 6130-01-640-8946
NSN 7035-01-626-6659
NSN 5835-01-116-2369
NSN 6220-00-856-3583
NSN 6105-01-394-5305
NSN 5930-01-528-5224
NSN 6135-01-210-8715
NSN 6220-00-113-6034
NSN 5975-01-504-8216