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 5855-01-497-8834
NSN 5895-00-992-0747
NSN 5905-01-269-0739
NSN 5975-01-365-4674
NSN 5895-01-092-4135
NSN 5855-00-361-0167
NSN 6110-01-292-9844
NSN 6105-00-664-1292
NSN 5930-01-283-6175
NSN 6150-01-571-7517
NSN 5905-00-143-0943
NSN 6685-01-251-3797