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 5920-01-418-1821
NSN 5996-00-351-2369
NSN 5960-00-212-6367
NSN 5990-00-006-5760
NSN 5915-00-225-9506
NSN 6620-01-647-1393
NSN 6685-01-049-3563
NSN 5855-00-466-2309
NSN 5985-01-084-7311
NSN 6135-00-563-7711
NSN 5930-01-442-8790
NSN 6650-01-506-5636