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 5935-01-202-0258
NSN 6240-01-425-5655
NSN 5835-01-599-1876
NSN 6320-01-643-0850
NSN 5999-01-154-9217
NSN 5985-00-823-2028
NSN 5925-00-069-6722
NSN 5950-01-056-5157
NSN 5999-01-477-6346
NSN 6240-00-938-1512
NSN 6620-01-218-3542
NSN 5855-01-180-5369