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 5985-01-029-2103
NSN 5855-01-503-5484
NSN 5930-01-202-2417
NSN 6645-00-580-2652
NSN 5965-01-414-6414
NSN 6110-01-246-0761
NSN 5960-01-367-6153
NSN 6320-01-180-9908
NSN 6110-01-192-1015
NSN 5960-01-461-9284
NSN 6240-00-683-0725
NSN 5990-01-078-1294