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 5999-01-458-1166
NSN 6145-01-623-6643
NSN 5855-01-464-5084
NSN 5996-01-289-0493
NSN 6240-01-409-2465
NSN 6130-01-264-1322
NSN 5985-01-466-4260
NSN 5945-00-583-8600
NSN 5960-00-008-1455
NSN 5985-01-437-4146
NSN 6685-00-447-5087
NSN 5998-01-528-8373