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 5915-01-087-3779
NSN 6320-01-462-2295
NSN 6685-00-516-2173
NSN 2925-00-987-9595
NSN 6610-00-059-6356
NSN 6110-00-478-3794
NSN 5998-01-599-0929
NSN 5920-00-997-0157
NSN 6620-00-893-1303
NSN 5935-01-191-5612
NSN 5895-01-114-9923
NSN 6130-01-398-9131