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 5910-01-241-9301
NSN 6645-00-960-6594
NSN 5920-01-386-4195
NSN 5965-01-467-2071
NSN 5990-01-370-7912
NSN 5990-01-033-1423
NSN 6150-01-519-3153
NSN 5855-01-366-2429
NSN 5895-00-419-4514
NSN 5915-00-925-2513
NSN 5998-01-266-6367
NSN 6145-01-316-6615