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 6610-01-514-7181
NSN 5915-00-099-0347
NSN 5935-01-145-9468
NSN 5945-01-147-5377
NSN 5920-01-321-1877
NSN 6685-01-281-7267
NSN 5998-01-346-0559
NSN 5920-00-927-5568
NSN 6105-01-601-6911
NSN 5960-01-649-1341
NSN 5990-01-189-3201
NSN 5835-01-089-1076