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 6220-01-459-8017
NSN 6130-01-222-1541
NSN 5915-01-050-9080
NSN 5975-01-008-0806
NSN 5905-01-331-6986
NSN 6130-00-222-6216
NSN 6110-00-993-3930
NSN 4140-00-528-2921
NSN 5920-00-050-0599
NSN 4140-00-857-9970
NSN 5905-01-193-2357
NSN 5910-01-168-1762