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 6220-01-363-9713
NSN 5905-00-450-6332
NSN 5960-00-794-7463
NSN 5920-01-607-3139
NSN 5945-00-258-8779
NSN 2925-00-491-3549
NSN 6220-01-345-6773
NSN 6240-00-931-6686
NSN 6240-01-616-0525
NSN 5835-01-218-5560
NSN 5895-01-439-7398
NSN 6135-00-613-1068