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 5996-01-201-7741
NSN 6645-01-157-0762
NSN 7035-01-558-6203
NSN 6320-01-138-0442
NSN 6150-01-056-4155
NSN 5935-01-437-8664
NSN 5996-00-168-9559
NSN 5930-01-368-3765
NSN 5925-01-529-5043
NSN 5855-01-085-5354
NSN 6145-01-415-3763
NSN 6320-00-261-9136