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 5910-01-444-1429
NSN 6620-01-631-0700
NSN 6150-00-913-4917
NSN 5835-01-432-8801
NSN 5920-00-959-9548
NSN 5920-01-412-4742
NSN 5960-00-447-0689
NSN 5950-01-633-8016
NSN 6645-00-566-5537
NSN 5930-00-469-2922
NSN 5990-00-725-7813
NSN 5930-01-465-5022