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 5920-01-574-1689
NSN 6130-00-782-0353
NSN 6130-01-510-9930
NSN 5855-00-532-0025
NSN 5835-01-658-4437
NSN 5930-00-965-8658
NSN 6145-01-392-3238
NSN 6145-00-208-6843
NSN 6145-01-373-8789
NSN 6145-01-501-4228
NSN 5905-01-495-8925
NSN 5950-01-056-5157