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 5945-01-044-3779
NSN 2925-01-633-4048
NSN 5999-01-452-8745
NSN 6145-01-179-6630
NSN 5920-00-730-4343
NSN 6145-01-381-0708
NSN 5905-01-299-9736
NSN 5835-00-247-0161
NSN 6620-01-025-1443
NSN 6240-00-389-4822
NSN 5910-00-081-5547
NSN 6105-01-550-7644