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 5950-01-091-9204
NSN 6320-00-360-1744
NSN 5905-01-304-1748
NSN 5920-00-811-7730
NSN 7035-01-480-5537
NSN 6645-01-391-9820
NSN 6110-00-170-6520
NSN 5895-00-180-5830
NSN 5855-01-138-4985
NSN 5895-01-252-8831
NSN 6220-01-327-3272
NSN 6145-00-879-9618