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 5925-01-323-1613
NSN 5930-00-927-2072
NSN 6105-00-527-7702
NSN 5999-00-679-9934
NSN 5930-01-437-9787
NSN 5985-01-291-2075
NSN 5999-01-500-8249
NSN 5998-00-111-2197
NSN 5996-00-960-1958
NSN 4140-01-158-4139
NSN 2925-01-317-4543
NSN 5835-00-061-5717