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 5930-00-597-5064
NSN 6105-01-444-1201
NSN 6320-00-433-2773
NSN 5998-00-066-8904
NSN 5990-01-463-5400
NSN 5975-00-686-3504
NSN 5925-00-353-0612
NSN 5925-00-529-0441
NSN 4140-01-181-8747
NSN 7035-00-931-9415
NSN 5999-00-439-0874
NSN 5985-00-518-5240