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 5975-01-206-9004
NSN 5835-01-422-7393
NSN 6135-01-575-8362
NSN 5999-01-469-7625
NSN 2925-00-139-3231
NSN 5915-01-470-6816
NSN 6685-00-488-1202
NSN 6110-01-418-7761
NSN 6650-01-566-8338
NSN 6610-00-413-5016
NSN 6135-01-268-7056
NSN 5905-00-224-5790