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 5920-01-168-2776
NSN 7035-01-428-2336
NSN 5930-01-441-9882
NSN 5930-01-105-9050
NSN 6240-01-052-7690
NSN 4140-01-372-2938
NSN 6620-01-605-1465
NSN 5985-01-400-5948
NSN 5945-01-142-6633
NSN 5855-00-688-9954
NSN 5975-01-212-8668
NSN 6645-01-425-2330