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 5925-01-465-9897
NSN 4140-01-307-3143
NSN 5985-01-484-7867
NSN 6220-01-618-8492
NSN 5975-01-442-8767
NSN 5996-01-633-7979
NSN 5935-00-367-7625
NSN 6105-01-123-8887
NSN 6620-01-584-6653
NSN 5935-00-876-8581
NSN 5950-00-275-7038
NSN 6645-01-501-0576