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 5835-01-614-1900
NSN 5930-00-139-5729
NSN 5975-01-510-4355
NSN 5950-01-172-0432
NSN 5915-01-132-0634
NSN 6645-01-531-3142
NSN 5945-01-059-8610
NSN 6220-01-417-3662
NSN 5965-00-100-1291
NSN 6110-00-984-3291
NSN 5910-01-190-7309
NSN 5950-00-928-3254