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 6105-01-107-7938
NSN 5920-01-550-9545
NSN 5910-01-241-9362
NSN 6145-00-722-5932
NSN 5985-01-505-5961
NSN 6145-01-606-2172
NSN 5965-01-597-6295
NSN 5998-01-267-0005
NSN 6110-00-684-6844
NSN 6685-01-389-0864
NSN 6685-00-991-1264
NSN 5990-01-609-4793