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 5925-01-442-7232
NSN 5945-00-202-9741
NSN 5930-01-197-4757
NSN 6610-00-061-7882
NSN 5930-01-590-6210
NSN 6220-01-535-5113
NSN 5965-00-951-9961
NSN 5905-01-063-2338
NSN 6130-01-512-1710
NSN 6620-00-803-2423
NSN 5945-01-465-4590
NSN 5950-01-322-2634