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 5895-00-432-6105
NSN 5915-00-230-8803
NSN 5925-01-392-0881
NSN 6610-01-372-9248
NSN 6620-00-018-2196
NSN 6105-00-943-7725
NSN 5855-01-197-2774
NSN 5920-01-073-3334
NSN 6320-01-190-1397
NSN 6130-00-407-0644
NSN 5910-01-093-4451
NSN 6105-01-180-0258