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 5910-01-415-7087
NSN 5999-01-253-4278
NSN 6320-01-397-0399
NSN 5990-01-315-3754
NSN 6610-00-225-9886
NSN 5915-01-602-8619
NSN 5930-00-577-4073
NSN 5905-01-483-6318
NSN 5998-00-233-7425
NSN 5935-01-100-0382
NSN 6135-00-234-6508
NSN 6650-01-603-3183