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 5915-01-580-7565
NSN 6150-00-202-9150
NSN 6320-00-331-7138
NSN 4140-01-097-7320
NSN 6610-01-287-0123
NSN 5895-01-198-7499
NSN 2925-01-517-8544
NSN 5835-00-427-2772
NSN 6150-01-444-3127
NSN 6105-01-587-6990
NSN 4140-01-389-3837
NSN 5950-00-456-0665