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 5935-01-324-7533
NSN 6650-01-328-9384
NSN 5920-00-275-0498
NSN 5895-01-499-6813
NSN 5985-01-463-8562
NSN 5915-01-133-7658
NSN 5920-00-040-2923
NSN 5975-01-555-8035
NSN 5999-00-912-0540
NSN 5835-00-419-0575
NSN 5905-00-753-9620
NSN 5915-01-542-9037