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 6645-00-068-9753
NSN 5925-01-603-3372
NSN 6320-01-583-6809
NSN 5910-01-220-6126
NSN 5855-00-189-6066
NSN 5930-00-752-2839
NSN 5920-01-334-0876
NSN 5950-01-237-3406
NSN 6320-01-116-3980
NSN 5990-01-087-6466
NSN 5930-01-145-5360
NSN 5925-01-646-3988