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 5999-00-248-7240
NSN 6620-01-122-0238
NSN 5950-00-284-3536
NSN 6650-01-050-5974
NSN 6685-01-135-4357
NSN 6150-01-323-6378
NSN 5915-01-500-4012
NSN 6685-01-251-8938
NSN 5996-01-112-0154
NSN 5905-01-210-1140
NSN 5985-00-379-2345
NSN 5996-00-920-4377