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 5915-00-446-4143
NSN 5920-01-521-4262
NSN 6110-00-323-9816
NSN 6240-01-268-2223
NSN 4140-01-157-8181
NSN 6650-01-438-1537
NSN 5945-01-499-9684
NSN 6645-01-291-8352
NSN 5855-01-316-6574
NSN 6320-00-358-1946
NSN 6150-00-061-3106
NSN 5960-01-539-1956