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 5945-01-267-9734
NSN 5895-00-501-0319
NSN 5996-01-066-0335
NSN 5950-00-813-8398
NSN 5985-00-583-2362
NSN 6650-00-684-3060
NSN 5935-01-279-0113
NSN 6240-01-104-5693
NSN 5925-01-421-4473
NSN 5998-01-481-3367
NSN 5935-01-366-0504
NSN 5950-00-975-2062