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 5895-01-392-5248
NSN 5910-01-495-1575
NSN 6620-01-412-0938
NSN 6145-00-033-2997
NSN 5965-00-715-6159
NSN 2925-00-242-7688
NSN 5965-01-603-7488
NSN 5930-01-339-9300
NSN 6110-01-242-5757
NSN 6110-01-570-5271
NSN 5915-00-828-6644
NSN 6150-00-165-5816