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 6105-00-595-5378
NSN 6685-01-634-0611
NSN 5935-00-204-0075
NSN 6110-01-351-4527
NSN 5925-01-395-7514
NSN 5925-00-966-7171
NSN 6645-01-537-6994
NSN 5915-01-473-2455
NSN 5965-00-503-7572
NSN 5990-00-067-1622
NSN 5910-01-253-6139
NSN 6240-01-346-5550