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 5985-01-608-3867
NSN 5905-01-004-0863
NSN 4140-00-852-6238
NSN 5965-01-101-9094
NSN 5985-00-263-7870
NSN 5960-01-052-6997
NSN 6150-01-179-9095
NSN 6150-00-397-4012
NSN 6240-01-101-7362
NSN 5855-01-236-9645
NSN 5950-00-824-7753
NSN 5960-01-323-6432