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 5905-01-323-7065
NSN 5950-00-736-8531
NSN 6105-00-527-8571
NSN 5960-00-607-0395
NSN 5950-01-222-4445
NSN 5915-01-553-6738
NSN 5935-00-764-2135
NSN 5835-00-005-7909
NSN 6240-00-972-4766
NSN 6145-01-279-8774
NSN 5999-01-436-6386
NSN 2925-01-437-9041