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 5935-01-013-9384
NSN 5990-01-246-7417
NSN 6650-00-052-3202
NSN 6320-01-426-8947
NSN 5960-00-231-0853
NSN 2925-01-311-7840
NSN 5945-01-152-8560
NSN 5945-01-230-9664
NSN 6685-00-336-3135
NSN 6110-00-519-5339
NSN 5998-01-300-3466
NSN 2925-00-247-6248