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 5925-01-196-9282
NSN 6620-01-078-6372
NSN 5985-01-222-0748
NSN 6105-00-784-6005
NSN 5996-00-467-1429
NSN 6150-01-061-1004
NSN 6610-00-957-3875
NSN 6685-01-197-0540
NSN 6650-01-043-2695
NSN 6135-01-050-3194
NSN 5855-01-525-1994
NSN 5996-01-255-6867