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 5915-01-576-2602
NSN 5945-01-063-6824
NSN 5925-01-297-5906
NSN 5960-01-340-1641
NSN 5999-00-644-9767
NSN 5930-01-106-8320
NSN 5835-00-885-6030
NSN 5855-00-688-9954
NSN 6130-00-963-1380
NSN 6220-01-222-0724
NSN 5915-00-828-2550
NSN 6645-00-925-2887