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 6150-01-526-9313
NSN 5930-01-117-5148
NSN 5965-01-012-1065
NSN 6110-01-646-9860
NSN 5915-00-803-5396
NSN 5998-01-145-5982
NSN 5905-00-963-1726
NSN 6220-00-901-8639
NSN 5910-01-251-9118
NSN 5895-01-399-7914
NSN 5945-01-331-4574
NSN 6145-01-632-8703