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 5975-01-387-3405
NSN 6105-01-214-7638
NSN 6145-01-303-2940
NSN 6620-00-804-8272
NSN 5915-01-471-2456
NSN 5910-01-349-8777
NSN 5985-01-106-2924
NSN 2925-01-190-9352
NSN 5835-01-561-2959
NSN 5905-01-049-4234
NSN 6145-01-274-5559
NSN 6105-01-267-6840