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 5930-01-439-4042
NSN 5996-01-505-4665
NSN 6240-01-320-1308
NSN 5910-01-432-6140
NSN 6320-01-302-5157
NSN 6320-01-572-6395
NSN 2925-00-373-8837
NSN 5975-01-177-3725
NSN 5990-01-602-6701
NSN 6220-01-294-0764
NSN 5855-00-973-5717
NSN 5905-00-978-9322