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 5915-01-321-4794
NSN 5996-01-218-6118
NSN 5965-01-241-0553
NSN 5975-01-260-7794
NSN 5920-00-081-8641
NSN 5905-01-086-6339
NSN 6650-01-622-0706
NSN 6240-01-272-5893
NSN 5965-01-593-9931
NSN 6620-00-880-1361
NSN 5920-00-239-6552
NSN 6620-01-416-9882