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 5855-01-457-7715
NSN 5905-00-130-2906
NSN 5910-00-839-8196
NSN 6110-00-494-9135
NSN 6645-00-183-8812
NSN 6220-00-631-1734
NSN 5925-01-224-8598
NSN 5855-00-004-0904
NSN 5950-01-041-8335
NSN 5925-01-486-3665
NSN 6645-01-076-4655
NSN 5965-01-100-2591