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 6105-01-093-4770
NSN 6130-01-313-0385
NSN 6620-01-336-8670
NSN 5996-00-467-9648
NSN 6645-00-400-7955
NSN 5975-00-650-8102
NSN 5950-01-446-6484
NSN 5855-01-360-4656
NSN 5910-01-633-9963
NSN 5925-01-646-3988
NSN 5996-01-541-4482
NSN 5996-01-588-2770