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 5945-01-287-9219
NSN 5915-01-254-6607
NSN 6685-01-473-6039
NSN 6110-00-188-9874
NSN 6610-00-200-8832
NSN 5925-01-622-7879
NSN 6240-01-119-1512
NSN 5920-00-538-7915
NSN 5996-01-567-2315
NSN 5950-00-414-3169
NSN 5935-01-268-2936
NSN 6240-00-204-9355