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 5960-01-495-0859
NSN 5855-00-165-3093
NSN 6150-00-953-2370
NSN 6685-01-008-5303
NSN 5965-01-497-5961
NSN 5960-01-219-5504
NSN 5925-00-899-9904
NSN 5965-01-258-5662
NSN 5895-00-338-4201
NSN 7035-01-426-4133
NSN 5915-01-606-0656
NSN 6320-01-652-3806