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 5999-01-381-9254
NSN 6110-01-472-3641
NSN 5910-00-186-9524
NSN 5975-00-672-1476
NSN 5945-01-526-1096
NSN 6620-00-932-4306
NSN 4140-00-903-5799
NSN 5915-01-594-3616
NSN 5975-01-655-2610
NSN 5920-01-231-9175
NSN 5930-01-290-5371
NSN 5975-00-481-3681