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 5965-00-396-3411
NSN 5999-01-111-2922
NSN 5945-01-278-4959
NSN 6105-01-119-0770
NSN 5925-01-160-0071
NSN 6620-01-630-6759
NSN 5930-01-104-5776
NSN 6610-00-305-5447
NSN 6110-01-164-5027
NSN 6620-01-618-2962
NSN 7035-01-398-3494
NSN 5905-01-499-8540