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 5935-01-100-1171
NSN 5905-01-578-6998
NSN 6130-01-360-8249
NSN 5910-01-516-5832
NSN 5996-01-386-2045
NSN 5935-01-093-1194
NSN 5920-00-226-7148
NSN 6645-00-926-4394
NSN 5945-00-597-8633
NSN 5855-00-361-0167
NSN 5855-00-107-7993
NSN 5965-00-644-0334