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 5985-01-023-8011
NSN 4140-01-618-9198
NSN 5975-01-139-6797
NSN 6320-01-516-3836
NSN 6105-00-891-9768
NSN 6110-00-915-6310
NSN 6620-01-385-1767
NSN 5996-00-276-5480
NSN 6685-01-553-0431
NSN 6150-01-037-6768
NSN 5945-01-249-7895
NSN 5910-01-174-2574