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 5950-01-032-4178
NSN 5920-00-168-4483
NSN 5999-00-974-9569
NSN 5910-01-053-2885
NSN 5960-01-111-9918
NSN 5960-00-003-7639
NSN 2925-01-380-0869
NSN 6620-01-629-4045
NSN 6145-00-233-4959
NSN 5920-01-377-8571
NSN 5935-00-969-6349
NSN 5950-01-598-9758