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 6220-01-138-1622
NSN 6135-01-377-3862
NSN 6685-01-659-8427
NSN 6240-01-230-5731
NSN 5960-01-077-6062
NSN 6650-01-115-2766
NSN 5975-01-430-7030
NSN 5925-00-242-2583
NSN 5996-01-123-9038
NSN 5996-00-494-3621
NSN 5996-00-544-5849
NSN 5925-01-146-9641