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 5945-00-721-1919
NSN 6685-01-180-9037
NSN 5990-01-261-2962
NSN 5985-00-508-5644
NSN 5985-01-103-3579
NSN 6320-01-092-4101
NSN 5935-01-541-9754
NSN 5910-01-234-0909
NSN 5996-00-690-6324
NSN 5905-01-487-5701
NSN 6145-01-536-8849
NSN 6105-01-324-2787