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 5915-01-109-0463
NSN 6610-01-083-1446
NSN 5835-01-024-9249
NSN 5975-01-391-5306
NSN 5996-01-008-0704
NSN 5920-01-395-0374
NSN 5915-00-137-7136
NSN 5999-01-173-5616
NSN 6105-00-023-7160
NSN 6110-01-596-1715
NSN 6320-01-600-5808
NSN 5945-01-322-0862