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 5910-00-452-0436
NSN 6130-00-109-9091
NSN 5935-01-535-6452
NSN 6685-01-208-2132
NSN 6645-00-408-0304
NSN 6320-01-036-2598
NSN 6150-00-812-8145
NSN 6110-00-807-9508
NSN 6620-01-256-4307
NSN 6685-01-530-6612
NSN 5855-00-189-6066
NSN 6320-00-646-3311