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 5910-01-393-7900
NSN 6105-00-406-3097
NSN 2925-01-424-0235
NSN 5960-00-297-7099
NSN 6110-01-202-8896
NSN 7035-01-012-2259
NSN 5990-01-414-7618
NSN 5835-01-399-5820
NSN 6610-00-527-8892
NSN 5835-00-224-9148
NSN 4140-01-536-9823
NSN 6220-00-212-9098