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 6685-00-287-7564
NSN 6620-00-189-0967
NSN 6145-01-579-3510
NSN 5910-00-939-7510
NSN 6110-00-721-4042
NSN 5990-00-807-3623
NSN 5920-01-353-1384
NSN 5925-00-221-8639
NSN 5835-01-512-4834
NSN 6105-00-773-8480
NSN 5935-00-309-7963
NSN 6135-01-383-0151