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 5950-00-089-2007
NSN 5930-01-232-7788
NSN 5999-00-914-9047
NSN 5895-01-441-4950
NSN 5985-00-346-9712
NSN 6650-01-426-4253
NSN 5925-01-594-1873
NSN 6650-01-502-9909
NSN 5910-00-934-0738
NSN 5910-01-538-7326
NSN 6145-01-521-7154
NSN 5855-01-078-4180