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 5965-01-552-1471
NSN 6685-00-073-6772
NSN 6135-01-633-8502
NSN 5915-01-414-9915
NSN 2925-00-828-5301
NSN 6130-01-185-4956
NSN 5950-01-164-6556
NSN 5965-00-577-1242
NSN 5855-01-534-7940
NSN 6150-00-501-5282
NSN 6645-01-542-6159
NSN 5998-00-227-4863