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 5915-00-201-1048
NSN 5975-01-578-6278
NSN 5985-01-287-4579
NSN 6150-01-039-2564
NSN 4140-00-365-2531
NSN 5915-01-437-4043
NSN 6220-01-359-7818
NSN 5998-00-038-3643
NSN 5905-01-537-3629
NSN 6150-01-309-9973
NSN 6685-01-283-4084
NSN 5990-01-254-2936