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 5835-00-034-4976
NSN 5920-00-138-7645
NSN 5910-00-567-9464
NSN 6130-00-221-7061
NSN 5975-01-261-4965
NSN 6620-00-105-3312
NSN 6610-01-498-4063
NSN 6135-00-998-5884
NSN 6110-01-294-8951
NSN 5975-01-465-3789
NSN 5910-01-548-1200
NSN 6220-01-448-5207