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 5950-01-561-1444
NSN 6110-00-834-7801
NSN 6620-00-248-9513
NSN 6685-01-487-3361
NSN 5985-00-281-0810
NSN 5925-01-254-6591
NSN 5930-00-403-8028
NSN 5990-00-713-9016
NSN 5855-01-524-4474
NSN 6220-01-398-0614
NSN 5935-00-307-4309
NSN 5965-00-079-0928