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 5920-01-254-4376
NSN 5935-00-399-1228
NSN 2925-00-660-8131
NSN 5930-01-465-7672
NSN 5905-01-449-9112
NSN 5905-00-801-9527
NSN 5985-00-966-6338
NSN 6150-01-611-9279
NSN 6240-01-641-9347
NSN 6685-01-114-1697
NSN 6105-00-300-3217
NSN 5855-01-125-9167