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 5855-00-446-5921
NSN 6105-00-204-9342
NSN 5945-01-422-4565
NSN 5960-00-953-2103
NSN 5965-01-527-5012
NSN 6150-00-005-1715
NSN 5960-01-484-2042
NSN 5999-01-068-5664
NSN 6220-01-589-5154
NSN 5990-01-524-7744
NSN 6620-00-834-9430
NSN 5935-00-521-9792