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 5950-00-477-6835
NSN 5960-01-564-5044
NSN 4140-00-594-4452
NSN 5990-01-615-7823
NSN 5985-00-872-1905
NSN 5960-00-089-8165
NSN 6685-01-037-4562
NSN 5999-01-372-0999
NSN 5920-01-406-2802
NSN 6110-01-602-9353
NSN 6135-00-299-6918
NSN 5855-00-862-3345