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 5996-01-460-6044
NSN 5905-01-605-0497
NSN 6685-01-114-3597
NSN 5965-01-017-3388
NSN 5835-01-193-6192
NSN 6240-00-858-0389
NSN 5998-01-104-5462
NSN 5855-00-411-8688
NSN 6240-01-594-0059
NSN 5975-01-064-7232
NSN 5905-01-250-3120
NSN 5960-01-099-9409