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 5905-01-180-0055
NSN 6650-01-592-5713
NSN 6220-01-237-2488
NSN 6110-00-324-8415
NSN 5910-00-435-8327
NSN 5960-01-129-2509
NSN 5960-01-314-7757
NSN 5965-01-247-5696
NSN 6135-00-497-0491
NSN 6105-01-430-2346
NSN 6145-01-501-5780
NSN 6685-01-329-1036