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 2925-01-136-1095
NSN 5999-01-482-6253
NSN 5998-00-430-7245
NSN 5975-01-549-1651
NSN 5910-00-515-2878
NSN 5998-01-522-6836
NSN 5935-00-862-6621
NSN 5915-01-054-3788
NSN 5945-00-462-1789
NSN 5920-01-007-6165
NSN 5950-00-281-2389
NSN 6650-01-357-6859