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 6320-01-072-2073
NSN 6130-00-159-8659
NSN 5925-00-601-6345
NSN 5925-01-146-5528
NSN 6240-01-321-5168
NSN 6135-00-676-5807
NSN 5905-01-213-2821
NSN 6105-01-454-3377
NSN 5915-01-506-9829
NSN 5855-01-067-8841
NSN 5985-00-570-6041
NSN 5895-01-211-6241