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 6220-01-303-3774
NSN 5920-01-157-9471
NSN 5998-01-085-3453
NSN 6685-01-504-1143
NSN 6145-00-606-5745
NSN 5960-01-163-2266
NSN 5945-01-275-6687
NSN 6110-00-857-4274
NSN 6645-01-076-4655
NSN 5895-00-754-4874
NSN 5905-01-584-2766
NSN 6135-00-134-6648