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 5905-01-469-0366
NSN 5998-01-368-8768
NSN 7035-01-449-1846
NSN 5895-01-142-1785
NSN 5990-01-004-6343
NSN 6135-00-416-2898
NSN 6220-01-619-5300
NSN 5925-01-190-5372
NSN 5950-01-113-7631
NSN 6645-00-279-1777
NSN 5910-01-441-3060
NSN 5895-01-656-2712