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 6220-01-362-0390
NSN 6220-01-464-3618
NSN 5935-01-346-1721
NSN 6220-00-734-0276
NSN 4140-01-228-1261
NSN 5895-01-470-1108
NSN 5895-01-237-3186
NSN 5950-01-235-3251
NSN 6610-01-521-9801
NSN 5905-00-228-6986
NSN 6610-00-961-2758
NSN 5999-00-836-8462