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 6130-01-473-1805
NSN 5998-00-862-5511
NSN 6620-01-645-1777
NSN 5998-01-577-3349
NSN 5895-01-408-5097
NSN 6145-00-877-9567
NSN 5930-01-455-6033
NSN 6610-01-175-2359
NSN 5990-00-623-8127
NSN 5990-01-559-0578
NSN 5945-00-129-5710
NSN 5895-00-052-2752