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 6220-01-182-0426
NSN 5975-00-553-7151
NSN 5915-01-424-0767
NSN 5855-01-334-6594
NSN 6320-01-054-3046
NSN 5965-01-612-5328
NSN 5999-00-585-3338
NSN 6685-01-477-3890
NSN 5985-01-577-9074
NSN 6240-01-553-0561
NSN 5925-01-130-5343
NSN 2925-01-076-5219