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 5930-01-297-1522
NSN 2925-01-424-0235
NSN 5855-01-447-3137
NSN 5990-00-202-5127
NSN 5990-01-253-5672
NSN 6650-00-717-8913
NSN 5945-01-473-6849
NSN 6610-01-442-3509
NSN 6620-00-596-1951
NSN 7035-00-213-6413
NSN 5950-01-361-8863
NSN 5915-01-501-9597