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 5910-01-366-7891
NSN 5945-01-566-4943
NSN 2925-01-197-7864
NSN 6685-01-352-6569
NSN 5960-01-386-5770
NSN 5915-00-244-4210
NSN 5996-01-359-0057
NSN 6105-01-377-1767
NSN 5920-00-647-3467
NSN 6145-00-955-1993
NSN 4140-01-531-3080
NSN 5998-01-152-8802