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 6145-01-029-4184
NSN 5915-01-450-1408
NSN 5935-00-755-9684
NSN 5910-00-768-7115
NSN 6650-01-252-8190
NSN 6645-01-552-0004
NSN 6105-00-479-9001
NSN 6645-01-444-3016
NSN 5905-01-524-4330
NSN 5895-01-397-5571
NSN 5920-01-200-6655
NSN 6130-01-451-4256