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 5905-01-449-2477
NSN 5925-01-558-6709
NSN 7035-00-252-7467
NSN 5910-00-888-5487
NSN 6240-00-243-4554
NSN 6135-01-417-6539
NSN 5935-00-584-4584
NSN 5915-00-757-2664
NSN 5895-01-546-9456
NSN 5855-01-423-1768
NSN 5855-01-066-4399
NSN 5996-00-153-8347