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 6145-01-509-9838
NSN 5930-00-660-7346
NSN 5895-00-186-8572
NSN 5935-00-914-1996
NSN 5895-01-215-1059
NSN 2925-01-205-4584
NSN 5910-01-142-3373
NSN 5950-00-200-1110
NSN 5990-01-512-9129
NSN 6135-00-835-7211
NSN 4140-00-631-7178
NSN 5895-00-830-8975