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 5945-01-367-1992
NSN 5895-01-401-5388
NSN 6220-01-025-6140
NSN 5965-00-529-0602
NSN 5925-00-286-8502
NSN 6135-00-203-9645
NSN 6650-00-150-6885
NSN 5925-00-114-2253
NSN 5915-00-100-5239
NSN 6130-00-133-1598
NSN 6145-00-345-2565
NSN 6220-01-238-2837