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 5985-00-232-4916
NSN 6650-01-555-8349
NSN 6620-01-328-1455
NSN 2925-01-411-4666
NSN 6685-01-391-6790
NSN 6150-01-185-5334
NSN 5975-01-138-5223
NSN 6620-01-521-0580
NSN 5950-00-946-7660
NSN 5895-01-097-3305
NSN 6320-01-411-6610
NSN 6650-01-528-8230