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 5920-01-258-3443
NSN 5996-00-189-6054
NSN 5975-01-499-5493
NSN 5925-00-251-1270
NSN 5998-00-529-2551
NSN 6610-00-288-5655
NSN 4140-01-411-5908
NSN 6320-00-564-2772
NSN 5945-00-784-5880
NSN 5950-01-449-7640
NSN 5975-01-254-2851
NSN 6130-01-287-6446