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 5998-01-010-2809
NSN 6150-00-369-9116
NSN 2925-00-777-2902
NSN 5915-00-528-9286
NSN 5835-01-074-7593
NSN 5920-01-054-5315
NSN 5945-01-455-0859
NSN 5990-00-623-8127
NSN 7035-00-215-3272
NSN 6220-01-618-4432
NSN 5895-01-439-1377
NSN 6220-01-437-9755