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 5985-01-504-1929
NSN 5905-00-009-8042
NSN 5925-00-081-9135
NSN 5990-01-502-8209
NSN 4140-00-148-7013
NSN 5975-01-303-5095
NSN 5835-01-008-7597
NSN 5915-01-364-1116
NSN 5910-01-316-7989
NSN 5965-01-147-5847
NSN 5998-01-039-9394
NSN 5855-01-528-7287