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 5935-01-651-5388
NSN 6135-00-057-2005
NSN 5915-00-814-6417
NSN 5945-00-603-7010
NSN 5990-00-788-3829
NSN 6110-01-421-2714
NSN 6320-01-082-2970
NSN 6220-01-657-5324
NSN 5915-01-530-4117
NSN 4140-01-469-9226
NSN 5920-00-521-2981
NSN 6650-01-399-0328