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 5930-01-382-8122
NSN 6130-01-374-1647
NSN 6610-00-661-1797
NSN 2925-01-013-0413
NSN 6610-01-112-0447
NSN 6135-01-167-7604
NSN 6110-00-556-8425
NSN 5910-01-278-9009
NSN 5985-01-350-3454
NSN 6130-01-083-7499
NSN 6620-01-116-3983
NSN 6240-01-043-2255