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 5895-01-163-8882
NSN 6610-01-304-3226
NSN 6150-01-092-0897
NSN 5895-00-868-5684
NSN 5855-00-688-9954
NSN 6145-01-043-3052
NSN 6240-01-659-6363
NSN 6645-01-056-5291
NSN 6610-01-641-1544
NSN 5985-01-549-5696
NSN 6145-01-094-6822
NSN 6620-01-468-6017