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 7035-01-501-5938
NSN 5950-01-634-0677
NSN 6620-01-633-8443
NSN 5910-01-555-8811
NSN 5930-01-296-8143
NSN 5999-00-035-4090
NSN 6620-01-258-6209
NSN 6320-01-171-3238
NSN 6645-01-468-3397
NSN 5855-00-014-5008
NSN 5925-00-236-9000
NSN 2925-01-113-6904