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 6110-01-200-5153
NSN 5905-01-026-1027
NSN 5920-01-469-9743
NSN 5998-01-327-2075
NSN 6240-01-258-5829
NSN 6610-01-422-1322
NSN 6145-01-145-7005
NSN 7035-01-534-9388
NSN 5920-01-034-8816
NSN 5950-01-297-5773
NSN 6110-01-415-0589
NSN 6650-01-267-3223