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 5910-01-426-8741
NSN 6240-01-147-7494
NSN 5930-00-529-7015
NSN 6650-01-472-8804
NSN 2925-01-076-5219
NSN 5945-01-207-1248
NSN 5915-00-343-6814
NSN 5950-01-634-0677
NSN 5905-01-004-1851
NSN 7035-01-594-9198
NSN 5905-01-422-4939
NSN 5895-01-462-2038