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 5855-00-494-9581
NSN 5998-01-488-4251
NSN 5895-01-447-2748
NSN 5915-00-764-8284
NSN 6110-01-430-7238
NSN 5925-01-167-0079
NSN 6135-00-763-5793
NSN 5835-01-485-0210
NSN 5895-01-442-0700
NSN 6105-01-292-1761
NSN 5930-00-108-9914
NSN 6610-01-421-5367