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 5895-01-161-7157
NSN 5915-00-206-0086
NSN 5920-00-291-1379
NSN 4140-01-007-6025
NSN 5998-00-816-9752
NSN 6130-01-004-7794
NSN 6620-01-184-7384
NSN 5965-00-296-9994
NSN 5855-00-337-3679
NSN 5996-00-880-1941
NSN 5996-01-425-1455
NSN 5996-00-452-2187