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 5975-01-256-6422
NSN 5925-01-277-1980
NSN 5960-00-174-1867
NSN 6320-01-443-3826
NSN 6610-01-571-3422
NSN 5945-01-055-4305
NSN 6110-01-276-7681
NSN 5925-01-262-4481
NSN 5945-01-464-4231
NSN 6610-00-958-0294
NSN 5985-01-429-4999
NSN 5835-00-733-9145