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 5915-01-307-8854
NSN 6240-01-112-1120
NSN 5915-01-038-1759
NSN 6145-01-286-8888
NSN 5975-01-357-9399
NSN 5920-00-961-6184
NSN 6645-00-580-9605
NSN 5996-00-219-6118
NSN 2925-01-604-8984
NSN 5855-01-594-7809
NSN 7035-00-360-2008
NSN 6130-01-516-5143