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 5950-01-477-2275
NSN 5999-01-333-0315
NSN 5920-00-572-7441
NSN 6220-01-187-7119
NSN 5930-01-428-4258
NSN 2925-01-113-6904
NSN 6105-00-462-9723
NSN 5996-01-084-6930
NSN 5985-01-065-8272
NSN 6240-01-477-0012
NSN 6135-00-885-6003
NSN 6130-01-089-8154