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 5920-01-235-9522
NSN 6145-00-275-4046
NSN 5945-00-198-7494
NSN 5990-00-150-6979
NSN 6135-00-134-6648
NSN 6220-00-231-9429
NSN 5996-00-871-8554
NSN 6130-00-264-1861
NSN 6320-01-478-9351
NSN 5910-00-173-5874
NSN 5950-00-944-2066
NSN 5935-00-931-7722