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 6130-01-400-6123
NSN 5999-01-205-1921
NSN 5835-01-202-1376
NSN 2925-01-359-4027
NSN 6610-00-369-6661
NSN 5965-01-050-8447
NSN 5960-01-099-8521
NSN 6130-00-067-7469
NSN 5960-01-054-3752
NSN 6645-00-269-2764
NSN 5895-00-427-6159
NSN 6240-00-925-4662