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 5975-01-243-9900
NSN 5905-00-495-4832
NSN 5855-01-130-1501
NSN 6620-01-244-3427
NSN 5915-00-682-3865
NSN 5905-01-444-5236
NSN 5835-01-324-5670
NSN 6320-00-403-6003
NSN 5930-01-047-8712
NSN 6105-01-017-8444
NSN 5925-01-374-3831
NSN 6645-01-651-9562