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 5905-01-534-0784
NSN 5835-01-608-4285
NSN 5930-01-524-2528
NSN 5835-00-660-4523
NSN 5960-01-386-5770
NSN 6110-00-409-1115
NSN 4140-01-252-7492
NSN 5905-01-580-1712
NSN 5855-00-688-9954
NSN 6645-01-607-7931
NSN 5960-01-367-6153
NSN 5915-01-560-6795