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 6220-01-302-8297
NSN 5999-00-869-5485
NSN 6130-01-603-2055
NSN 6145-00-027-9852
NSN 5990-01-601-7332
NSN 5935-00-593-6347
NSN 6645-01-414-4941
NSN 6105-01-546-5367
NSN 6135-01-609-5699
NSN 6110-01-487-2842
NSN 5960-00-192-4503
NSN 5925-01-011-2202