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 5996-01-465-2305
NSN 6685-01-202-7823
NSN 5950-01-235-0724
NSN 5915-01-529-7351
NSN 5975-00-308-5138
NSN 5975-01-184-4447
NSN 5910-01-423-8423
NSN 5960-01-632-6576
NSN 6240-00-281-8417
NSN 6610-01-548-3401
NSN 5999-00-981-4420
NSN 6130-01-077-8875