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 5945-01-014-8566
NSN 5996-00-966-9516
NSN 5935-01-337-4998
NSN 5910-01-461-9685
NSN 6220-01-415-4164
NSN 6150-01-273-9516
NSN 5905-01-497-0125
NSN 5985-01-268-1359
NSN 6150-01-160-3716
NSN 5895-01-156-4252
NSN 5990-01-027-0568
NSN 5895-01-548-5188