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 5996-01-043-2105
NSN 5930-01-372-6635
NSN 5930-01-212-2129
NSN 5915-01-528-9519
NSN 5915-01-555-0034
NSN 5945-00-605-6703
NSN 5985-01-141-6504
NSN 7035-01-169-6551
NSN 6620-01-535-6925
NSN 5975-00-953-8822
NSN 5950-01-574-4641
NSN 6645-00-754-4108