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 6240-01-128-9084
NSN 5950-01-125-7455
NSN 5910-01-476-7528
NSN 5895-01-535-9182
NSN 6130-00-719-7219
NSN 5960-01-056-4982
NSN 5975-00-857-2791
NSN 5930-01-074-3390
NSN 7035-01-462-5766
NSN 5895-01-412-1325
NSN 5960-01-297-2665
NSN 2925-01-424-0235