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 5950-01-386-5845
NSN 4140-01-069-6989
NSN 6620-01-346-9340
NSN 5915-00-361-9148
NSN 5990-00-316-8872
NSN 5975-00-575-9446
NSN 5910-01-417-6291
NSN 5915-01-271-7299
NSN 6105-01-477-2857
NSN 6105-01-026-0165
NSN 5925-00-304-3315
NSN 5895-00-246-4415