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 6105-01-462-0766
NSN 5960-01-047-5155
NSN 7035-01-106-3476
NSN 5975-01-465-0586
NSN 5855-01-059-2710
NSN 5855-00-494-9581
NSN 5985-01-322-7624
NSN 5910-01-463-8365
NSN 6610-01-604-7335
NSN 5935-01-463-2807
NSN 5910-01-418-0991
NSN 5998-01-038-2440