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 6130-01-387-5313
NSN 5855-01-154-1402
NSN 5905-00-949-7253
NSN 5925-00-772-3508
NSN 5990-00-976-9496
NSN 5975-01-113-7397
NSN 6135-00-321-6707
NSN 6620-00-484-4662
NSN 6135-01-231-4809
NSN 5935-00-269-5516
NSN 5960-01-649-1341
NSN 6645-00-321-6071