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 6130-01-451-7539
NSN 6150-00-737-0464
NSN 5999-00-679-5908
NSN 6610-01-119-7873
NSN 6145-00-952-9290
NSN 6320-01-015-9856
NSN 5835-01-527-2629
NSN 5996-01-359-5912
NSN 5950-01-558-8385
NSN 5910-01-648-2045
NSN 5996-01-300-4347
NSN 5910-00-102-9389