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 5950-01-342-3624
NSN 6110-00-934-7943
NSN 7035-01-459-8268
NSN 5990-00-155-2306
NSN 5925-01-445-6112
NSN 5905-01-103-7884
NSN 6240-00-493-3693
NSN 5895-01-527-3357
NSN 5965-00-073-3488
NSN 5930-01-528-7771
NSN 5935-01-519-9189
NSN 5960-01-371-5494