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 5985-01-089-8621
NSN 5910-01-487-6524
NSN 5925-00-121-5218
NSN 6320-01-352-5653
NSN 5895-00-229-4053
NSN 5996-01-116-3404
NSN 5999-00-549-2580
NSN 6320-00-845-3261
NSN 6150-01-599-9637
NSN 6145-00-050-9919
NSN 6150-00-243-9531
NSN 5990-01-463-2279