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 5960-01-392-6982
NSN 6130-01-068-3362
NSN 5996-01-428-9436
NSN 6145-01-238-7863
NSN 2925-01-283-3576
NSN 6110-00-350-9571
NSN 6110-00-225-1726
NSN 5925-00-088-1525
NSN 5935-01-382-7994
NSN 6645-01-146-3323
NSN 5915-01-063-1336
NSN 5835-01-300-4226