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 5975-00-019-8993
NSN 5855-01-645-8185
NSN 6240-01-496-8527
NSN 5920-01-375-9629
NSN 6645-00-079-1430
NSN 5895-01-399-7914
NSN 5930-01-132-4476
NSN 6130-00-554-7852
NSN 5985-01-568-3890
NSN 5905-00-369-1644
NSN 5996-01-170-1915
NSN 6240-01-578-7913