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 5930-01-088-4064
NSN 5950-01-302-1101
NSN 6150-01-298-0536
NSN 6135-00-107-6662
NSN 6645-01-406-6077
NSN 6650-01-629-9480
NSN 6150-00-226-1868
NSN 5905-00-924-9391
NSN 5975-01-412-0782
NSN 5998-00-285-3186
NSN 6320-01-322-4128
NSN 5985-01-120-0929