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 6220-01-162-7954
NSN 5925-00-573-4367
NSN 5950-01-509-6293
NSN 5930-01-145-5360
NSN 5960-01-070-8525
NSN 6110-00-339-4140
NSN 5905-01-309-4768
NSN 5975-00-935-3942
NSN 6650-01-559-3861
NSN 6105-01-200-3544
NSN 6135-01-460-3243
NSN 5960-01-503-0362