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 5915-01-225-6708
NSN 5965-01-515-9326
NSN 6110-00-223-8684
NSN 6135-00-968-8594
NSN 5998-00-897-8999
NSN 5998-01-233-9257
NSN 6105-01-323-4695
NSN 5895-00-910-0293
NSN 5895-01-336-0476
NSN 6685-00-188-1991
NSN 5920-01-112-0296
NSN 5915-01-568-9240