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 6620-00-498-7781
NSN 5996-00-862-5351
NSN 2925-01-071-9291
NSN 5920-01-521-4262
NSN 6645-00-763-1424
NSN 4140-01-394-4166
NSN 2925-00-899-4261
NSN 5999-01-393-4379
NSN 6685-00-435-5630
NSN 6650-01-231-9545
NSN 5965-01-020-4104
NSN 6110-01-584-8324