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 5935-01-433-8339
NSN 6130-00-266-1051
NSN 5999-01-384-4028
NSN 5999-01-468-3651
NSN 5998-01-303-3124
NSN 7035-01-459-1222
NSN 5996-01-493-9908
NSN 5950-01-188-0061
NSN 5920-00-476-0528
NSN 5985-01-256-2547
NSN 6610-01-406-4985
NSN 6150-01-072-1304