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 5975-01-610-5853
NSN 5920-01-294-2805
NSN 5950-00-936-4329
NSN 5925-01-388-3325
NSN 5998-01-425-6354
NSN 6135-01-151-2705
NSN 5935-00-611-7350
NSN 6610-01-601-7648
NSN 5998-00-633-5169
NSN 5895-01-580-3679
NSN 6150-00-317-2003
NSN 5935-01-030-6286