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 5855-01-610-6125
NSN 5915-01-440-9298
NSN 5835-01-238-3381
NSN 6620-01-296-9803
NSN 5950-00-502-1142
NSN 5905-00-934-8857
NSN 5985-01-644-6096
NSN 5915-01-152-1907
NSN 2925-01-011-8732
NSN 5996-00-283-7385
NSN 6685-01-353-1192
NSN 5935-01-284-7400