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 5925-00-466-7308
NSN 6105-01-032-4706
NSN 5965-01-214-6225
NSN 6645-01-046-8849
NSN 2925-01-013-0413
NSN 5999-01-358-7677
NSN 6145-01-246-3988
NSN 6135-01-584-0941
NSN 5945-00-221-8554
NSN 6685-00-397-3629
NSN 5910-01-194-1621
NSN 5905-00-523-8458