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 5855-01-653-4319
NSN 5998-01-552-6547
NSN 5920-01-519-1920
NSN 6135-01-586-5018
NSN 5835-01-132-5188
NSN 5945-01-571-5798
NSN 4140-01-273-0196
NSN 5945-00-952-1217
NSN 5915-01-106-3705
NSN 5985-01-605-1198
NSN 6110-01-215-1702
NSN 6240-01-542-8672