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 6610-01-168-7943
NSN 4140-01-280-5364
NSN 5950-00-879-3214
NSN 5945-01-090-0610
NSN 6240-01-003-8666
NSN 6645-00-244-0359
NSN 5996-01-268-6792
NSN 6220-00-768-4105
NSN 5999-01-505-5400
NSN 5895-01-555-7250
NSN 6610-01-365-7796
NSN 5910-01-507-9722