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 6220-01-068-9941
NSN 6105-01-131-9677
NSN 6150-01-632-5563
NSN 5950-01-195-5503
NSN 5965-01-191-0735
NSN 6110-00-596-9124
NSN 6135-00-152-8729
NSN 5855-01-444-4228
NSN 6320-00-098-2858
NSN 6130-00-783-6779
NSN 6685-00-319-8882
NSN 5905-01-423-0589