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 5945-00-233-6644
NSN 5935-01-245-1503
NSN 5855-00-118-8762
NSN 5915-01-581-1102
NSN 5905-01-422-0127
NSN 6685-01-463-8461
NSN 5915-01-154-2633
NSN 7035-01-278-1379
NSN 6135-00-942-7970
NSN 5925-01-654-1983
NSN 2925-01-484-8556
NSN 6620-01-189-8153