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 6145-00-004-3530
NSN 2925-00-580-4931
NSN 6110-00-840-6560
NSN 7035-00-703-3535
NSN 5945-00-808-6345
NSN 6645-01-350-3138
NSN 5910-00-186-0917
NSN 5905-01-444-8175
NSN 6610-01-658-6611
NSN 5990-00-212-4316
NSN 6110-01-112-2322
NSN 6110-01-507-7938