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 5935-01-646-9627
NSN 5835-01-205-6614
NSN 6110-01-196-1614
NSN 6110-01-578-7953
NSN 5999-01-411-5135
NSN 5905-01-084-0759
NSN 6240-01-378-8227
NSN 5965-00-330-9672
NSN 6685-00-169-4994
NSN 5945-01-648-6078
NSN 6650-01-323-2141
NSN 6220-00-149-0977