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 5996-01-654-6729
NSN 5975-00-859-9906
NSN 5960-01-241-1844
NSN 6110-01-400-4207
NSN 5985-01-373-1217
NSN 5998-00-251-9174
NSN 6130-01-532-0567
NSN 5930-00-891-2793
NSN 6685-00-789-3404
NSN 5925-01-127-7608
NSN 5920-00-785-5471
NSN 6620-00-090-1536