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 6130-01-384-0315
NSN 5965-01-111-6031
NSN 5855-00-436-3852
NSN 6110-01-394-5302
NSN 6240-01-319-5523
NSN 6130-01-367-7138
NSN 6240-00-104-4662
NSN 6145-01-474-5230
NSN 5920-01-526-4504
NSN 5998-01-312-2676
NSN 6645-01-330-4251
NSN 5925-00-391-5362