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 5895-01-415-4168
NSN 5950-01-460-2104
NSN 5855-01-160-3802
NSN 5985-00-411-7359
NSN 5996-01-199-2262
NSN 5990-00-518-0684
NSN 5920-01-570-8534
NSN 4140-00-802-2968
NSN 6685-00-049-6669
NSN 5960-01-031-7992
NSN 6135-01-407-0594
NSN 5975-00-131-1583