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 5960-01-579-9493
NSN 5910-00-146-4355
NSN 5910-00-008-1668
NSN 5998-00-148-9301
NSN 6240-01-050-9156
NSN 6645-00-276-7544
NSN 5930-01-230-2251
NSN 5985-00-163-1574
NSN 6150-01-598-9179
NSN 5930-00-496-7803
NSN 5935-00-778-9955
NSN 5920-01-515-2163