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 5975-01-398-6040
NSN 5930-01-218-6533
NSN 7035-01-069-3537
NSN 5965-00-906-8281
NSN 6320-01-039-5891
NSN 5945-01-222-1658
NSN 6650-00-455-2416
NSN 5960-00-904-8145
NSN 5920-01-634-0250
NSN 6150-00-596-9882
NSN 5999-00-935-8684
NSN 2925-00-010-2632