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 5945-01-505-3160
NSN 6135-00-767-0331
NSN 5930-00-394-6938
NSN 2925-01-139-5144
NSN 6645-01-079-3741
NSN 5960-01-649-1341
NSN 6320-01-453-2358
NSN 5935-01-127-2413
NSN 5996-00-101-0687
NSN 6620-00-932-6508
NSN 4140-01-617-7814
NSN 6645-01-648-0250