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 6110-01-123-7285
NSN 5985-00-082-1317
NSN 5990-00-519-9974
NSN 5855-00-869-3635
NSN 5999-00-517-9503
NSN 5985-00-876-6144
NSN 5915-01-420-5777
NSN 5855-01-522-5457
NSN 6650-01-024-9554
NSN 5855-01-410-8979
NSN 5985-00-279-8507
NSN 5985-01-044-4523