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 6320-01-029-4220
NSN 6645-01-136-9825
NSN 5975-00-252-7768
NSN 5925-00-804-5814
NSN 6650-01-258-5871
NSN 5965-00-222-7394
NSN 6135-01-264-1311
NSN 5855-00-797-8217
NSN 5910-01-599-3961
NSN 5985-00-147-6937
NSN 6645-01-519-2220
NSN 5990-01-506-7695