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 5930-01-648-9650
NSN 5855-01-478-2333
NSN 5998-01-271-0870
NSN 6650-01-281-4651
NSN 6220-00-132-0970
NSN 6130-01-498-0636
NSN 6220-00-913-8486
NSN 6220-01-087-9013
NSN 6135-00-269-5843
NSN 5999-01-113-7716
NSN 5935-00-512-2703
NSN 5915-01-120-3340