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 5925-01-645-4048
NSN 5985-00-078-4079
NSN 5855-00-951-6483
NSN 6220-01-158-2871
NSN 6240-00-577-3430
NSN 5975-01-529-1525
NSN 5950-01-535-7276
NSN 5950-01-482-6338
NSN 5996-01-236-9467
NSN 5915-01-093-2389
NSN 5985-01-165-9424
NSN 5985-00-005-3334