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 5965-01-520-8604
NSN 6650-00-537-9222
NSN 6130-01-027-1832
NSN 6320-01-224-0063
NSN 5998-01-633-0337
NSN 6130-00-782-0353
NSN 6135-01-164-3561
NSN 6130-01-113-7566
NSN 5895-01-467-0970
NSN 5895-00-390-7806
NSN 6220-01-513-7256
NSN 6150-00-202-5011