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 5985-01-398-0480
NSN 6240-01-234-1594
NSN 6685-01-359-1137
NSN 5935-01-615-6472
NSN 6220-01-045-9091
NSN 6220-01-107-4595
NSN 5990-01-106-3786
NSN 6110-00-917-3805
NSN 6320-01-600-5808
NSN 2925-01-446-6523
NSN 6220-01-325-4529
NSN 5925-00-078-9566