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 2925-01-072-7101
NSN 5998-01-287-4159
NSN 5999-01-268-5217
NSN 6150-01-534-7514
NSN 6105-00-931-8036
NSN 7035-01-364-0286
NSN 5915-01-605-3245
NSN 5985-00-871-9478
NSN 6620-01-060-3086
NSN 2925-01-633-4048
NSN 5985-01-443-7267
NSN 6110-01-105-2971