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 5965-01-027-6554
NSN 5910-00-809-1116
NSN 6105-00-852-4117
NSN 5999-01-357-4689
NSN 6685-00-150-7080
NSN 5935-01-335-6998
NSN 5835-01-394-7589
NSN 4140-01-048-5472
NSN 5895-01-447-2742
NSN 5998-01-288-5662
NSN 2925-01-444-6676
NSN 5905-01-539-5300