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 5950-01-481-1075
NSN 5985-00-379-2345
NSN 6110-01-453-4266
NSN 5975-01-357-5941
NSN 6645-00-825-5677
NSN 5925-01-595-6276
NSN 5960-00-073-1272
NSN 6620-01-367-2597
NSN 5935-00-392-0272
NSN 6685-00-432-8795
NSN 6220-01-043-5561
NSN 6240-00-778-5779