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 5999-01-569-3002
NSN 5930-01-271-0764
NSN 4140-00-944-7318
NSN 5925-01-441-9512
NSN 2925-01-653-4657
NSN 4140-01-356-5614
NSN 6135-01-062-9356
NSN 5945-00-768-8615
NSN 5950-00-399-1037
NSN 6320-01-449-1014
NSN 5999-01-172-4573
NSN 2925-00-759-5465