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 5910-00-608-3627
NSN 6135-01-177-3552
NSN 5895-01-346-2624
NSN 6685-01-266-3711
NSN 5985-00-529-0093
NSN 6135-01-374-6631
NSN 6320-01-219-5174
NSN 5835-01-360-2657
NSN 6650-01-225-0176
NSN 6240-01-423-9738
NSN 5945-01-525-4412
NSN 6110-01-464-1433