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 5945-01-403-2800
NSN 6320-00-925-0558
NSN 5945-00-604-3578
NSN 6220-01-382-2696
NSN 6110-01-047-5078
NSN 5920-01-634-0250
NSN 6130-01-471-8421
NSN 6130-01-265-7225
NSN 5990-01-272-4091
NSN 5985-00-103-9682
NSN 7035-01-451-6421
NSN 5920-00-369-0923