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 6105-01-392-1539
NSN 6220-00-531-1025
NSN 6320-00-295-2854
NSN 5895-00-011-7880
NSN 5910-01-521-8498
NSN 6135-01-252-0315
NSN 6240-01-046-9424
NSN 6240-00-752-2581
NSN 6135-00-416-2898
NSN 5996-00-056-0160
NSN 6645-01-461-0406
NSN 7035-00-631-3782