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 6620-01-514-7786
NSN 5998-01-253-5057
NSN 6320-01-506-9439
NSN 6240-01-265-0960
NSN 5930-01-389-4459
NSN 6685-01-216-0056
NSN 5975-01-302-4255
NSN 5975-00-781-6473
NSN 6320-01-435-5991
NSN 5855-01-180-5369
NSN 5910-00-891-9160
NSN 5965-00-199-4456