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 5950-01-533-2009
NSN 6150-01-232-3274
NSN 5920-00-755-6265
NSN 6650-01-584-4359
NSN 6110-00-141-1966
NSN 5998-01-605-1342
NSN 6220-01-068-4066
NSN 6320-01-629-1277
NSN 5835-00-984-1233
NSN 5960-01-589-6846
NSN 5960-01-458-6484
NSN 6110-00-009-9334