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 5920-01-167-5884
NSN 5960-00-778-6167
NSN 2925-01-633-4048
NSN 6135-01-633-8502
NSN 5855-01-085-5354
NSN 6650-01-413-3825
NSN 6685-01-139-7388
NSN 5975-00-552-1764
NSN 5990-01-534-8609
NSN 6685-00-021-6890
NSN 5975-01-422-3470
NSN 5945-01-255-6333