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 5985-01-634-0635
NSN 5985-01-505-1331
NSN 5998-01-459-0152
NSN 6645-00-567-4562
NSN 5835-01-462-5983
NSN 6620-01-145-7762
NSN 5905-00-160-6856
NSN 5996-00-151-4462
NSN 5998-00-255-4040
NSN 6240-00-968-7971
NSN 5925-00-764-4686
NSN 6645-00-896-9430