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 5998-01-410-7788
NSN 6135-01-101-5039
NSN 5945-00-553-9963
NSN 5965-00-752-5823
NSN 5915-01-167-4739
NSN 5915-01-557-7909
NSN 5996-01-102-1246
NSN 5950-01-513-8236
NSN 5855-01-051-1155
NSN 6135-01-430-3119
NSN 5950-00-295-8596
NSN 4140-01-470-7990