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 5975-01-055-9756
NSN 5990-01-314-0228
NSN 5915-01-435-1679
NSN 5960-01-337-5339
NSN 6620-00-067-3539
NSN 5930-01-508-8650
NSN 6220-01-415-0553
NSN 6610-00-460-1419
NSN 6240-00-786-6170
NSN 6645-01-578-1920
NSN 5996-01-578-6162
NSN 6320-01-583-6809