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 5835-01-125-6676
NSN 5920-01-462-2517
NSN 5998-00-241-8715
NSN 6685-01-229-4292
NSN 5999-00-261-7972
NSN 2925-00-163-9016
NSN 5920-00-009-6818
NSN 6240-01-432-7404
NSN 5910-00-761-7781
NSN 6130-01-432-6518
NSN 6645-01-180-6219
NSN 6240-00-927-7009