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 5920-01-462-1950
NSN 6150-01-578-2373
NSN 5910-01-463-7399
NSN 5960-00-114-1828
NSN 5935-01-422-2963
NSN 5935-01-067-7357
NSN 6645-00-220-2458
NSN 6150-01-166-6545
NSN 6135-01-100-3593
NSN 5985-00-452-2228
NSN 5999-00-324-4297
NSN 5935-00-324-3005