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 5930-00-248-5543
NSN 5910-01-029-3475
NSN 5835-01-440-5391
NSN 6620-01-364-0195
NSN 5945-00-419-0184
NSN 5920-01-301-0190
NSN 6135-01-529-3789
NSN 5945-01-392-1068
NSN 6320-01-523-4954
NSN 6650-01-424-7152
NSN 6105-01-592-3213
NSN 6110-00-349-8701