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 5999-01-147-0104
NSN 5950-01-512-2430
NSN 6105-01-587-5610
NSN 5905-01-614-0177
NSN 6650-01-392-0588
NSN 5915-01-477-3078
NSN 6645-01-326-2560
NSN 6620-01-541-1561
NSN 5910-01-211-4363
NSN 6130-01-420-0700
NSN 6685-00-726-5430
NSN 6105-00-913-3512