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 6645-00-435-5610
NSN 5925-00-034-1293
NSN 6685-01-407-3282
NSN 5998-01-660-0512
NSN 6110-00-525-3418
NSN 4140-01-202-7853
NSN 6610-01-485-3074
NSN 5920-01-200-6655
NSN 5905-01-534-5964
NSN 5999-01-202-8707
NSN 5965-00-994-3190
NSN 6105-01-085-6002