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 5925-01-292-6570
NSN 5925-00-961-9179
NSN 5855-01-653-9463
NSN 6105-01-340-4806
NSN 6610-01-055-4147
NSN 5996-00-665-2869
NSN 2925-00-098-4165
NSN 4140-01-277-2548
NSN 6135-01-193-8154
NSN 6110-01-526-5926
NSN 6110-00-560-6990
NSN 6150-01-142-8271