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 5975-01-038-3769
NSN 6240-01-431-5442
NSN 6220-00-801-3872
NSN 6110-01-498-9223
NSN 5925-01-487-8190
NSN 6610-01-025-2876
NSN 6240-01-398-2887
NSN 7035-00-079-7189
NSN 5960-01-038-2195
NSN 5990-01-380-0650
NSN 6135-01-632-3365
NSN 5950-01-100-4903