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 5975-01-502-6167
NSN 5930-01-125-4167
NSN 6240-01-442-7746
NSN 6105-01-070-9844
NSN 7035-00-162-5487
NSN 6610-00-673-1258
NSN 5915-01-425-2981
NSN 5960-00-269-4762
NSN 5960-01-470-1579
NSN 5965-01-495-1170
NSN 5925-01-156-0361
NSN 5920-00-119-1406