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 5920-01-183-3125
NSN 6130-01-442-8033
NSN 5990-00-716-3756
NSN 6240-01-135-3874
NSN 6650-01-035-3041
NSN 5990-01-206-8895
NSN 6240-00-901-6759
NSN 5935-00-080-9293
NSN 5996-00-935-2647
NSN 5945-01-105-6669
NSN 5930-00-075-3505
NSN 6150-01-357-6518