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 5998-01-571-8462
NSN 5925-01-078-6673
NSN 5835-01-158-6878
NSN 5910-01-089-8395
NSN 5905-01-187-6048
NSN 6135-00-880-1026
NSN 5935-00-128-6144
NSN 6110-01-122-8569
NSN 6320-01-207-0636
NSN 5999-01-435-4607
NSN 6110-01-143-7912
NSN 6240-00-262-2894