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 5935-01-521-6935
NSN 5945-00-670-0444
NSN 5960-01-443-3067
NSN 5835-00-572-7445
NSN 6130-00-187-0211
NSN 6650-01-580-5459
NSN 2925-01-318-8853
NSN 5915-01-196-9620
NSN 6240-01-422-1878
NSN 7035-01-597-1449
NSN 6145-01-634-0388
NSN 6110-01-120-5278