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 5945-01-505-3717
NSN 4140-00-336-1728
NSN 5935-00-054-2209
NSN 5975-01-548-0528
NSN 5965-01-351-4615
NSN 6110-01-456-1985
NSN 6135-01-339-4695
NSN 6320-01-029-4220
NSN 5950-01-205-1608
NSN 5990-00-583-9577
NSN 5960-01-416-6187
NSN 5835-01-514-5758