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 6110-01-004-9870
NSN 5998-00-202-5380
NSN 5945-01-183-3768
NSN 5999-01-384-3137
NSN 5998-01-290-7550
NSN 4140-01-504-1976
NSN 6105-01-152-2800
NSN 5950-01-095-6893
NSN 5915-00-603-7062
NSN 5998-00-959-4539
NSN 5835-00-617-3578
NSN 6650-01-053-8726