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 5835-01-584-8538
NSN 5935-01-231-9653
NSN 5835-00-289-9080
NSN 6320-00-331-7138
NSN 5855-00-862-3345
NSN 5855-01-447-3137
NSN 5985-00-281-0810
NSN 6105-01-356-3365
NSN 6650-01-308-9394
NSN 6105-01-652-4460
NSN 5945-00-421-7174
NSN 6240-01-029-3316