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 5965-01-293-0121
NSN 6650-01-058-0049
NSN 5930-00-537-0508
NSN 5996-01-512-0800
NSN 5945-01-595-6691
NSN 5935-00-642-5798
NSN 5985-01-611-0375
NSN 4140-00-678-2141
NSN 5910-01-618-4722
NSN 5920-00-690-1930
NSN 6610-01-411-6800
NSN 5998-00-719-7610