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 5950-01-554-3697
NSN 5910-01-384-7824
NSN 5965-01-607-7684
NSN 6220-00-174-8514
NSN 6110-00-012-5514
NSN 6135-01-415-1163
NSN 6320-00-682-3448
NSN 6685-01-328-9966
NSN 5945-00-202-5133
NSN 6110-01-549-1386
NSN 5965-01-133-7459
NSN 5905-01-206-8685