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 5965-01-367-9357
NSN 5930-01-541-4971
NSN 5930-01-449-0039
NSN 6320-00-312-7348
NSN 5835-00-013-9271
NSN 5990-01-507-7495
NSN 6145-01-187-3989
NSN 5905-00-345-0688
NSN 4140-00-925-5188
NSN 5930-00-200-1351
NSN 6320-01-255-2096
NSN 6150-00-810-9605