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 6320-01-072-2073
NSN 6645-01-058-2473
NSN 5990-01-463-2279
NSN 5998-00-737-1220
NSN 5990-00-557-3672
NSN 6135-00-798-1425
NSN 6130-01-477-5571
NSN 5920-01-389-2077
NSN 5855-01-406-4821
NSN 6240-00-146-9322
NSN 6135-01-061-1862
NSN 5920-01-396-1147