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 6220-01-361-9295
NSN 5895-01-446-7523
NSN 5945-00-645-2309
NSN 5975-01-020-9193
NSN 6150-00-233-6356
NSN 5945-01-222-0506
NSN 5920-00-518-1789
NSN 6240-00-677-0305
NSN 5930-01-435-1207
NSN 6105-01-277-0594
NSN 5895-01-446-6374
NSN 5960-01-497-4572