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 5999-01-033-5474
NSN 6130-01-177-4472
NSN 6685-00-488-3064
NSN 5950-01-315-1397
NSN 5910-00-513-7364
NSN 6130-00-862-7093
NSN 5915-01-123-8292
NSN 5915-00-761-4212
NSN 6220-01-595-4730
NSN 5975-00-226-8429
NSN 5910-00-370-2471
NSN 6145-01-135-8243