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 5855-01-649-3606
NSN 5960-00-170-2521
NSN 5935-01-218-6170
NSN 5975-00-397-9533
NSN 5996-00-935-4385
NSN 7035-00-140-3070
NSN 6220-01-076-4383
NSN 5996-01-464-6617
NSN 5950-00-611-6562
NSN 5935-00-112-5194
NSN 5945-01-368-5241
NSN 5920-01-418-1821