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 5998-01-123-5791
NSN 5945-00-620-0642
NSN 5925-01-364-0771
NSN 5975-01-386-4457
NSN 5996-01-178-9486
NSN 5985-01-122-9476
NSN 5855-01-466-5353
NSN 5998-00-312-1409
NSN 6685-01-386-0696
NSN 5925-01-415-9358
NSN 5920-00-953-5037
NSN 6620-01-453-6764