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 5975-01-295-0590
NSN 5910-01-241-3548
NSN 5925-01-350-3169
NSN 2925-01-587-3956
NSN 6320-00-790-4844
NSN 5960-00-170-6916
NSN 5985-00-359-9067
NSN 6105-01-530-4538
NSN 5975-00-480-0114
NSN 5960-01-507-9112
NSN 5965-01-472-1997
NSN 5930-01-600-9920