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 5985-01-045-1094
NSN 5835-01-229-6964
NSN 6240-01-050-5124
NSN 5935-00-947-9984
NSN 5935-01-204-1762
NSN 2925-01-097-0903
NSN 5960-01-281-2872
NSN 5835-01-173-8003
NSN 5915-01-418-1843
NSN 6110-00-257-1446
NSN 5935-00-297-6686
NSN 6135-00-500-2082