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 5965-01-082-9288
NSN 6220-01-479-7950
NSN 6320-00-809-5744
NSN 5985-00-791-4560
NSN 6150-01-229-3606
NSN 5998-01-423-4312
NSN 5965-01-508-1093
NSN 6150-01-386-9205
NSN 5905-01-065-1663
NSN 5965-01-447-4220
NSN 5965-01-343-6983
NSN 5920-01-521-4262