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 5950-01-266-5692
NSN 5945-00-114-3910
NSN 6145-01-504-2583
NSN 6220-01-027-3360
NSN 6650-01-358-9800
NSN 5960-01-573-6483
NSN 6105-01-428-6344
NSN 5910-01-303-4791
NSN 5965-01-588-5249
NSN 5925-00-550-4946
NSN 6645-01-476-3660
NSN 5996-01-617-2500