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 2925-01-446-6976
NSN 5985-00-567-0684
NSN 6685-00-073-8897
NSN 5930-01-328-7970
NSN 5855-01-463-4102
NSN 5998-01-444-7020
NSN 5935-00-735-0109
NSN 5895-00-740-7461
NSN 6145-01-226-9662
NSN 6685-01-456-1712
NSN 6240-01-302-3838
NSN 5960-00-759-8259