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 5998-01-519-8354
NSN 5915-00-941-8233
NSN 5960-01-550-8038
NSN 6620-01-576-7723
NSN 5935-01-330-9235
NSN 6150-01-265-8397
NSN 6135-01-442-4581
NSN 6240-01-602-1567
NSN 4140-00-835-3610
NSN 5998-01-659-1439
NSN 6220-00-702-8263
NSN 6240-00-307-9650