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 5935-00-796-0904
NSN 6320-01-098-2503
NSN 6685-00-403-9489
NSN 5895-01-356-7826
NSN 5960-01-163-8905
NSN 6240-01-143-0397
NSN 5965-01-608-1919
NSN 5965-01-414-2257
NSN 5950-01-598-5069
NSN 5835-00-419-0575
NSN 6150-01-308-8540
NSN 5920-01-602-4365