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 5945-01-524-4195
NSN 5999-00-761-6685
NSN 5935-00-194-0252
NSN 6145-01-438-7322
NSN 5990-01-254-2936
NSN 6110-01-621-2972
NSN 5920-01-526-2499
NSN 5950-01-604-8820
NSN 5965-01-527-1220
NSN 6150-00-758-3602
NSN 6105-00-161-1834
NSN 5930-01-366-6945