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 5855-00-482-9876
NSN 5950-01-219-3048
NSN 5998-01-634-0604
NSN 5996-00-849-3833
NSN 5960-01-292-0027
NSN 5975-01-056-5036
NSN 6130-01-216-7158
NSN 6145-01-377-5130
NSN 5945-00-284-7312
NSN 6645-01-076-4655
NSN 4140-00-111-3166
NSN 6110-01-373-6096