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 5935-01-215-1422
NSN 5999-01-039-7283
NSN 5905-00-003-0376
NSN 6240-00-004-2516
NSN 6110-00-014-8160
NSN 6620-00-084-7621
NSN 6620-00-303-9947
NSN 6220-01-236-9816
NSN 5985-00-144-8170
NSN 2925-00-081-3547
NSN 6130-01-467-9465
NSN 6145-00-323-6021