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 5945-01-535-6961
NSN 5999-00-051-2273
NSN 6685-01-027-7061
NSN 5985-01-384-6054
NSN 6135-01-422-1440
NSN 5835-00-177-2970
NSN 5920-01-152-7035
NSN 4140-01-012-3996
NSN 5905-00-468-8008
NSN 6130-00-452-1486
NSN 6685-00-940-0852
NSN 6105-00-005-4156