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 5925-01-423-7803
NSN 5855-01-246-0342
NSN 5910-01-337-3160
NSN 5990-00-990-1711
NSN 5910-01-206-3474
NSN 5999-01-293-8448
NSN 5905-01-629-2632
NSN 7035-00-200-5162
NSN 6135-01-373-2518
NSN 6610-01-508-6272
NSN 6145-01-535-1026
NSN 6645-01-246-7129