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 5910-01-206-9987
NSN 5998-01-624-3788
NSN 5999-01-645-8886
NSN 6130-01-642-9326
NSN 5915-01-616-7325
NSN 2925-01-312-9502
NSN 5895-00-156-4939
NSN 5915-01-483-2046
NSN 6110-00-575-9795
NSN 6135-01-650-9371
NSN 5910-00-452-3896
NSN 5915-01-633-9845