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 6110-01-352-1922
NSN 5945-00-263-2262
NSN 5905-01-076-5158
NSN 5975-01-422-5507
NSN 6620-01-593-0817
NSN 6105-01-623-6204
NSN 5990-01-044-8804
NSN 5915-01-628-9880
NSN 6150-01-415-0231
NSN 6145-00-925-2004
NSN 6240-01-391-0399
NSN 6610-00-318-8540