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 5935-01-156-5794
NSN 5855-01-449-5724
NSN 5975-01-483-1515
NSN 4140-01-442-7799
NSN 5920-01-434-8504
NSN 5925-01-178-4078
NSN 5935-00-876-2539
NSN 5945-00-150-3034
NSN 6650-01-195-0742
NSN 5935-00-205-8019
NSN 2925-00-090-5018
NSN 6220-01-624-1504