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 5855-01-136-1916
NSN 6320-01-029-4220
NSN 5950-01-185-4156
NSN 5945-00-615-7742
NSN 6610-01-514-3683
NSN 5996-00-104-5607
NSN 6240-00-865-7447
NSN 6130-01-547-7437
NSN 6240-01-157-9128
NSN 5935-00-900-6067
NSN 5915-01-113-7872
NSN 5999-00-530-4844