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 6145-01-110-2746
NSN 6220-00-822-4426
NSN 5835-00-327-6192
NSN 5855-01-100-3272
NSN 5985-01-449-1679
NSN 4140-01-149-4180
NSN 5895-01-548-0604
NSN 5945-01-101-7675
NSN 2925-01-540-7389
NSN 6320-01-198-4024
NSN 5835-00-280-8494
NSN 5925-00-471-1949