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 5930-01-441-9233
NSN 6685-00-712-8410
NSN 6320-01-605-7059
NSN 5925-00-452-1270
NSN 5990-01-234-8646
NSN 6130-01-492-5318
NSN 6645-00-389-3370
NSN 4140-01-634-0330
NSN 6240-00-813-6328
NSN 5930-01-218-6196
NSN 5905-01-349-6826
NSN 6620-01-161-1200