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 2925-00-041-0439
NSN 5996-00-944-9185
NSN 5915-01-176-7004
NSN 5905-00-879-5647
NSN 6240-00-172-8451
NSN 6320-01-253-1028
NSN 5835-00-850-1475
NSN 5930-01-415-5103
NSN 7035-01-193-2667
NSN 7035-01-495-7134
NSN 6145-00-196-1394
NSN 6685-00-975-0041