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 5855-01-054-9014
NSN 5895-01-034-7102
NSN 6610-01-420-1739
NSN 5990-00-263-1289
NSN 5935-01-423-3836
NSN 5905-00-816-9679
NSN 5996-00-723-1949
NSN 6620-01-491-1434
NSN 5915-01-525-4083
NSN 5945-01-255-5197
NSN 5855-01-042-7990
NSN 5935-00-675-2326