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 5910-01-012-2526
NSN 5925-01-424-6744
NSN 5835-00-707-6266
NSN 5999-00-812-3821
NSN 6240-01-371-0978
NSN 2925-00-428-6349
NSN 6620-01-462-1625
NSN 6145-01-314-8534
NSN 6650-01-502-7316
NSN 5935-01-147-3910
NSN 5960-00-221-9614
NSN 5996-01-441-1594