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 5960-01-013-7643
NSN 6320-01-607-1491
NSN 5998-01-528-8761
NSN 6110-01-626-1304
NSN 5935-01-263-0335
NSN 5950-01-531-6743
NSN 6645-00-163-9580
NSN 6620-00-464-6105
NSN 5835-01-416-6455
NSN 5835-01-408-7576
NSN 6220-00-575-6169
NSN 6220-00-383-9402