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 5998-00-285-3186
NSN 5920-00-113-6041
NSN 5998-00-079-1375
NSN 5990-00-779-8268
NSN 2925-01-390-7963
NSN 5999-00-807-3775
NSN 6150-01-211-0946
NSN 5985-01-324-5913
NSN 5999-01-041-5111
NSN 5965-00-153-5216
NSN 5935-00-826-7848
NSN 5930-00-322-4376