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 5920-01-153-2690
NSN 6685-01-364-8552
NSN 6220-01-193-7577
NSN 5915-01-267-3651
NSN 6610-00-481-1197
NSN 6150-01-016-0434
NSN 5999-00-290-5898
NSN 6685-01-362-8762
NSN 5998-01-325-6276
NSN 6145-01-442-6436
NSN 5910-01-052-9823
NSN 6320-01-564-0893