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 5835-01-376-8454
NSN 5935-01-194-0081
NSN 6240-01-225-9508
NSN 5915-00-021-7106
NSN 6220-01-441-2889
NSN 5920-00-454-4263
NSN 5998-01-573-6243
NSN 4140-01-536-9823
NSN 6220-01-541-6283
NSN 6220-01-467-2543
NSN 5996-01-088-7074
NSN 6105-00-403-1217