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 5965-01-198-3256
NSN 5990-01-245-7299
NSN 6320-00-310-1080
NSN 5999-01-206-9939
NSN 6130-00-293-4714
NSN 5895-00-104-4583
NSN 5930-00-093-1404
NSN 5999-01-310-4532
NSN 6685-01-356-9967
NSN 5855-00-797-8217
NSN 6620-01-303-2563
NSN 5930-01-215-1907