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 5945-01-539-6989
NSN 5975-00-239-0352
NSN 5990-00-907-3912
NSN 6320-00-405-2348
NSN 5945-01-012-3228
NSN 6685-01-446-6580
NSN 5895-00-580-0842
NSN 5930-00-184-8195
NSN 6145-01-573-7695
NSN 5920-01-290-3771
NSN 6220-01-070-9574
NSN 5920-00-730-1332