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 5975-01-252-3611
NSN 6220-01-519-2892
NSN 5999-00-105-0854
NSN 6135-00-182-7008
NSN 5895-00-740-7461
NSN 5920-01-657-2255
NSN 6150-00-280-4500
NSN 5985-01-433-6740
NSN 6150-01-380-9497
NSN 5960-01-015-2610
NSN 5835-00-198-4936
NSN 5905-01-137-2257