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 5975-01-444-4832
NSN 5930-01-519-8747
NSN 5855-01-373-7538
NSN 6105-01-156-5312
NSN 5975-00-951-2495
NSN 2925-00-169-3775
NSN 6610-01-141-9979
NSN 6320-01-425-1417
NSN 5855-00-087-7833
NSN 6110-01-386-4055
NSN 5990-00-104-4903
NSN 6685-01-372-8769