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 5855-01-364-1005
NSN 5935-01-528-7803
NSN 6220-01-551-1032
NSN 6645-01-154-3080
NSN 5895-01-243-4337
NSN 5915-00-473-2112
NSN 5960-01-080-8451
NSN 5905-01-028-6999
NSN 5998-01-334-5898
NSN 5895-01-606-1745
NSN 5965-00-519-6610
NSN 5975-01-376-8519