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 5855-01-384-3314
NSN 5915-01-433-7687
NSN 2925-00-925-0545
NSN 6105-00-289-9993
NSN 6645-00-388-3463
NSN 6130-01-056-1317
NSN 5975-01-032-4641
NSN 6135-01-412-8929
NSN 6685-00-184-3894
NSN 5985-01-253-4840
NSN 6645-00-808-1407
NSN 5975-01-441-9221