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 5985-01-014-2389
NSN 5985-00-100-7935
NSN 5935-01-590-1706
NSN 5960-01-486-6629
NSN 6685-00-296-0392
NSN 4140-01-301-2724
NSN 5965-00-937-6482
NSN 5990-01-147-5225
NSN 6145-01-346-7214
NSN 6135-00-377-9165
NSN 6610-01-474-5206
NSN 5975-01-362-3266