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 6145-01-521-4564
NSN 5895-00-525-3295
NSN 6645-00-133-7823
NSN 5965-01-142-1807
NSN 5950-01-474-7890
NSN 5975-00-280-3357
NSN 6105-01-289-1082
NSN 6150-00-884-2071
NSN 5950-00-300-0245
NSN 5998-00-832-5883
NSN 5985-01-317-5008
NSN 5905-01-154-0836