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 5915-01-437-4470
NSN 5950-01-209-4353
NSN 5965-01-107-8549
NSN 6150-01-319-3917
NSN 5975-01-327-8008
NSN 6145-00-291-5388
NSN 5930-01-411-4980
NSN 2925-00-549-6759
NSN 6620-00-705-8092
NSN 5985-01-341-6991
NSN 5930-00-300-5650
NSN 5835-01-062-2235