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 5910-01-077-0188
NSN 5915-01-585-1274
NSN 4140-01-484-0242
NSN 5935-00-290-1778
NSN 6145-01-289-5039
NSN 6685-00-843-2211
NSN 5855-01-588-1606
NSN 6110-01-465-5952
NSN 6135-01-454-7041
NSN 6610-00-945-6782
NSN 5990-01-311-7491
NSN 5975-01-618-4474