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 5895-01-573-7542
NSN 6135-00-196-5267
NSN 6685-00-387-9654
NSN 5925-01-197-9899
NSN 5915-01-358-6474
NSN 5996-01-445-5528
NSN 6145-01-577-1557
NSN 6130-00-483-1518
NSN 6320-01-382-9676
NSN 5996-01-199-2262
NSN 5930-01-237-2596
NSN 5905-00-114-1794