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 5905-01-116-4369
NSN 5975-00-136-1254
NSN 5835-01-350-0566
NSN 5999-01-497-4378
NSN 5855-01-543-8175
NSN 5960-01-331-3817
NSN 5999-01-377-9907
NSN 5990-00-900-0672
NSN 5925-01-435-9492
NSN 5835-01-026-0670
NSN 6220-01-564-9200
NSN 5998-01-517-4084