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 5960-01-302-7583
NSN 5985-01-412-0252
NSN 5998-01-231-1837
NSN 5935-01-309-6598
NSN 5985-00-757-3883
NSN 4140-01-372-1039
NSN 5935-00-594-2901
NSN 5935-00-783-9252
NSN 6150-01-423-7487
NSN 2925-01-103-0680
NSN 5965-00-080-2045
NSN 5925-01-317-4328