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 5945-00-041-2849
NSN 5998-01-652-1606
NSN 5975-01-513-9163
NSN 5960-01-437-7422
NSN 4140-00-232-1039
NSN 5996-01-285-2353
NSN 4140-01-007-0590
NSN 5998-00-106-8733
NSN 7035-00-703-3535
NSN 5915-00-072-9646
NSN 6220-01-185-1136
NSN 5945-00-338-3733