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 5915-01-266-6104
NSN 5985-00-045-4219
NSN 5998-01-361-5423
NSN 5965-00-246-5612
NSN 6220-01-079-2029
NSN 5910-01-076-6361
NSN 5965-01-537-1536
NSN 6220-01-252-8398
NSN 5905-00-958-2631
NSN 7035-00-096-9986
NSN 6130-00-845-5239
NSN 6610-00-639-3615