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 5905-01-579-3060
NSN 5985-01-472-1744
NSN 5915-01-531-8726
NSN 5965-01-346-9014
NSN 6685-01-482-9173
NSN 5998-01-486-1820
NSN 2925-01-068-3844
NSN 5975-01-584-3151
NSN 6610-01-502-0480
NSN 6610-00-527-8892
NSN 6220-01-285-5694
NSN 5835-01-447-0467