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 5930-01-441-2856
NSN 6110-00-946-3060
NSN 5999-01-356-4150
NSN 6610-00-186-9180
NSN 5920-00-147-7975
NSN 2925-01-131-0473
NSN 6650-01-338-6042
NSN 5895-01-534-3530
NSN 5835-01-226-0714
NSN 5998-01-066-1801
NSN 5935-01-071-1722
NSN 5945-01-546-6917