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 5975-00-454-9055
NSN 5925-01-107-1951
NSN 5975-01-184-2736
NSN 7035-00-126-1899
NSN 5910-01-386-4231
NSN 5930-01-091-2256
NSN 6685-00-431-9608
NSN 5965-01-433-5756
NSN 6645-01-525-3123
NSN 5905-01-436-3353
NSN 5920-00-140-8912
NSN 5855-01-042-7990