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 5996-01-633-2867
NSN 5835-00-238-1516
NSN 5930-01-444-1462
NSN 5895-01-634-0630
NSN 5915-01-604-2947
NSN 5999-00-032-1767
NSN 5835-01-599-1876
NSN 5996-01-617-9375
NSN 5855-01-373-4610
NSN 5920-01-381-0514
NSN 5975-00-565-7593
NSN 5925-00-554-4114