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 5950-01-189-8547
NSN 5910-01-580-5233
NSN 5960-01-148-6908
NSN 5960-00-246-4623
NSN 7035-01-327-4456
NSN 5985-01-577-5028
NSN 5996-00-648-2490
NSN 5960-00-466-3523
NSN 5960-01-199-1157
NSN 6150-00-570-0552
NSN 5930-01-433-6507
NSN 6105-01-600-3652