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 5925-01-590-1375
NSN 7035-00-868-2640
NSN 5910-00-217-5114
NSN 5895-01-370-6897
NSN 5965-01-475-0666
NSN 6645-01-378-1285
NSN 5925-01-633-9434
NSN 5960-01-279-0985
NSN 4140-01-494-9367
NSN 6110-01-539-6476
NSN 6145-01-318-8278
NSN 7035-01-322-0221