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 5930-00-107-7140
NSN 6145-01-327-3328
NSN 5910-01-418-7621
NSN 5945-01-202-0146
NSN 6620-01-138-8250
NSN 5835-01-474-1224
NSN 6320-00-306-0124
NSN 5895-01-352-3628
NSN 6240-01-248-0424
NSN 6610-01-559-5073
NSN 6320-00-593-0379
NSN 6150-00-202-9150