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 5985-01-432-0157
NSN 5990-00-694-4086
NSN 5990-01-117-7932
NSN 5915-00-896-3111
NSN 5835-00-681-0005
NSN 4140-00-830-9515
NSN 5835-01-432-1277
NSN 5920-01-099-4971
NSN 7035-01-106-3476
NSN 5930-00-518-1642
NSN 5905-00-314-1750
NSN 6610-00-336-2404