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 5960-01-441-7047
NSN 4140-01-004-9177
NSN 6220-00-246-0744
NSN 5950-00-126-5842
NSN 5960-01-641-5493
NSN 5999-01-361-2033
NSN 5985-00-117-4702
NSN 6220-01-238-5332
NSN 6650-00-883-4790
NSN 5985-01-633-2772
NSN 5975-01-139-4128
NSN 6645-01-056-3417