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 5965-01-329-7890
NSN 5975-01-512-9432
NSN 5905-01-227-0935
NSN 5950-00-223-8989
NSN 6650-01-328-6624
NSN 5996-00-771-0952
NSN 5998-01-279-8076
NSN 5975-01-116-3678
NSN 6685-01-401-5360
NSN 6150-01-329-8128
NSN 5945-01-500-1904
NSN 5835-01-625-8604