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 5895-00-221-6557
NSN 6240-01-444-1673
NSN 6620-00-090-1601
NSN 6650-01-376-5934
NSN 6150-01-227-3149
NSN 6610-01-147-3099
NSN 6610-01-338-6053
NSN 6135-01-314-8416
NSN 5965-00-035-4556
NSN 5965-01-213-7256
NSN 5855-00-832-9341
NSN 5996-01-534-6088