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 5855-01-429-8702
NSN 5965-00-021-5620
NSN 5999-00-421-2636
NSN 4140-01-514-7379
NSN 6110-00-135-2804
NSN 5915-00-383-1471
NSN 5999-01-304-1641
NSN 5996-00-762-2218
NSN 5975-01-398-8956
NSN 6105-00-948-3817
NSN 5935-01-491-3714
NSN 5960-01-260-7430