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 5925-00-350-4478
NSN 5835-01-432-8801
NSN 5905-01-614-5212
NSN 6685-01-168-8194
NSN 6650-01-272-3727
NSN 2925-01-429-2235
NSN 6135-01-425-9687
NSN 5855-00-757-5149
NSN 5930-00-974-6586
NSN 4140-00-517-7902
NSN 2925-00-480-9068
NSN 5915-01-099-8398