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 6240-00-274-4028
NSN 5985-01-282-5543
NSN 5975-00-835-2213
NSN 5935-01-590-9470
NSN 6650-01-658-7194
NSN 7035-01-558-2976
NSN 5990-01-462-9228
NSN 6105-00-229-6652
NSN 5996-01-190-9982
NSN 5930-01-469-6345
NSN 5930-01-279-5264
NSN 6145-01-445-9788