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 5935-00-079-9413
NSN 6650-00-005-8572
NSN 5915-01-644-5689
NSN 5985-01-508-3054
NSN 6645-01-438-1524
NSN 5985-00-262-5109
NSN 6620-01-361-8685
NSN 5910-01-365-3974
NSN 6105-00-462-3295
NSN 6220-00-173-7200
NSN 6685-01-220-2935
NSN 5905-01-196-6154