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 5998-01-389-7570
NSN 5998-00-661-0380
NSN 6220-00-912-4090
NSN 4140-01-615-6751
NSN 5965-00-033-5928
NSN 5935-01-570-9712
NSN 2925-01-476-3224
NSN 5895-00-294-6888
NSN 6650-01-326-7305
NSN 5999-01-124-0866
NSN 5998-01-033-1821
NSN 5835-01-233-6398