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 5930-01-146-1302
NSN 5965-00-692-6364
NSN 5855-00-149-0766
NSN 6135-01-526-6530
NSN 5950-01-442-7195
NSN 5920-01-156-8705
NSN 5855-01-079-1259
NSN 5835-01-342-7975
NSN 5920-01-520-5397
NSN 5996-01-197-7005
NSN 5965-00-139-4870
NSN 5950-01-576-2741