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 5920-01-235-3843
NSN 6130-01-447-3164
NSN 5930-01-020-7715
NSN 5998-01-325-1733
NSN 6105-01-330-2534
NSN 5960-00-679-3944
NSN 5945-01-054-1440
NSN 5996-01-036-5639
NSN 5935-01-431-7774
NSN 6650-00-411-1403
NSN 5915-01-054-3788
NSN 5905-01-507-4998