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 6645-01-090-2555
NSN 5855-01-162-5251
NSN 6135-01-643-5809
NSN 5910-01-558-3790
NSN 7035-01-463-6559
NSN 5855-00-233-2366
NSN 5925-01-204-1370
NSN 6110-00-029-9116
NSN 6645-01-512-2260
NSN 7035-01-185-6500
NSN 5990-00-292-5017
NSN 5905-00-713-3731