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 6220-01-148-7953
NSN 5990-01-175-2360
NSN 4140-01-555-8190
NSN 5998-00-934-9941
NSN 5945-01-526-7531
NSN 6130-01-460-4562
NSN 5925-00-423-2791
NSN 6620-01-614-3591
NSN 6135-01-154-3526
NSN 5975-01-609-6688
NSN 6645-01-383-0106
NSN 5835-01-442-6482