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 5855-01-052-3666
NSN 5935-01-385-5607
NSN 4140-01-621-9723
NSN 6150-01-206-4243
NSN 6650-01-120-6231
NSN 6685-01-213-3183
NSN 6685-00-357-1102
NSN 5920-00-794-4415
NSN 5945-01-434-7236
NSN 2925-01-285-7163
NSN 6150-00-075-4621
NSN 6105-01-362-3034