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 5945-01-415-5087
NSN 5945-01-483-1316
NSN 6105-00-805-2343
NSN 6620-01-084-5112
NSN 6145-00-228-2207
NSN 5945-00-990-2301
NSN 6145-00-966-8961
NSN 6130-01-374-2755
NSN 6220-00-006-0349
NSN 6105-00-868-9819
NSN 6620-01-032-3937
NSN 6685-01-408-6372