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 6645-01-542-6159
NSN 6240-01-026-6447
NSN 5950-01-235-3251
NSN 5996-01-129-9494
NSN 5910-01-344-0121
NSN 5910-01-392-9815
NSN 6320-00-977-3930
NSN 6130-01-591-9810
NSN 5835-01-416-6449
NSN 6645-01-076-4655
NSN 6130-01-032-6013
NSN 7035-01-550-0760