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 5950-00-759-6270
NSN 7035-01-278-1379
NSN 6610-01-254-4196
NSN 5945-01-452-9291
NSN 2925-01-554-1474
NSN 6320-01-516-3836
NSN 6620-00-983-4171
NSN 6320-01-185-3857
NSN 5950-00-887-0632
NSN 5935-00-146-1897
NSN 5915-01-168-6570
NSN 5990-01-369-2764