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 5905-01-316-9322
NSN 6130-01-080-6057
NSN 5998-00-615-2763
NSN 5990-01-623-0082
NSN 5960-00-004-6636
NSN 6220-00-797-1565
NSN 6610-00-691-1207
NSN 5950-01-081-1062
NSN 6320-00-445-1187
NSN 5990-01-481-8441
NSN 5950-01-359-8170
NSN 6135-01-226-4071