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 5925-01-211-7745
NSN 4140-01-411-5908
NSN 6105-01-137-9274
NSN 5950-00-212-4904
NSN 5975-00-485-2267
NSN 6610-01-399-5222
NSN 7035-01-284-3535
NSN 6145-01-590-9586
NSN 6145-00-758-9884
NSN 6150-01-487-6414
NSN 6240-01-446-6171
NSN 5835-01-303-6563