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 5915-01-049-0241
NSN 5950-01-464-2507
NSN 6130-00-824-5843
NSN 6220-00-968-0235
NSN 6650-01-583-2505
NSN 5915-01-328-8964
NSN 5905-01-645-9205
NSN 5996-00-577-0483
NSN 6220-00-395-5225
NSN 6240-00-275-1950
NSN 6105-00-267-6954
NSN 5985-00-529-0093