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 6320-01-415-0953
NSN 5960-00-601-3118
NSN 6620-01-205-6608
NSN 5925-01-482-6206
NSN 5965-01-323-7225
NSN 5935-01-647-7200
NSN 5999-01-571-4696
NSN 5925-00-204-9759
NSN 5910-00-408-3820
NSN 5855-00-235-2676
NSN 6110-01-645-4990
NSN 6145-01-570-5810