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 5945-01-415-1506
NSN 6130-01-620-0743
NSN 6145-01-200-7075
NSN 5925-01-503-6177
NSN 6650-01-610-0010
NSN 6620-01-420-6831
NSN 6645-01-373-8860
NSN 6320-01-366-5157
NSN 5915-00-398-0677
NSN 6145-01-020-7603
NSN 6150-01-063-1271
NSN 5920-01-359-3287