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 5925-01-453-1819
NSN 6135-00-377-9165
NSN 6150-01-539-2194
NSN 5998-00-540-1948
NSN 5930-01-601-1594
NSN 5985-00-852-4477
NSN 5915-00-099-0347
NSN 6220-01-078-1625
NSN 6320-01-532-7491
NSN 6320-01-237-9746
NSN 5925-00-821-8602
NSN 5990-01-200-7460