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 6240-01-426-5581
NSN 5950-00-931-7649
NSN 5996-01-365-0781
NSN 5920-00-004-0274
NSN 5985-00-919-7213
NSN 5998-01-160-5640
NSN 6135-00-767-0331
NSN 5855-01-647-0320
NSN 5920-01-323-6369
NSN 5935-00-365-6570
NSN 5905-01-471-3234
NSN 5930-01-628-3518