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 5990-01-442-3520
NSN 6220-00-702-0677
NSN 5910-00-759-8291
NSN 5985-01-282-4615
NSN 5915-01-417-2058
NSN 5855-01-522-4143
NSN 6150-01-501-5778
NSN 6130-01-560-9452
NSN 5910-01-595-7670
NSN 6650-01-387-9381
NSN 5985-01-502-3903
NSN 5925-01-460-8587