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 5835-01-328-6626
NSN 5999-00-844-9166
NSN 5910-00-067-8305
NSN 4140-00-449-9619
NSN 6220-01-138-1622
NSN 6145-01-341-5734
NSN 6220-01-357-7675
NSN 5985-00-516-2373
NSN 5990-00-492-5063
NSN 5935-01-006-9866
NSN 7035-00-188-6674
NSN 5998-01-126-5426