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 5930-01-615-8743
NSN 6320-00-925-0558
NSN 5945-00-351-5374
NSN 6240-01-585-6311
NSN 5999-01-113-8332
NSN 7035-01-484-6743
NSN 5915-00-625-2285
NSN 4140-00-012-3506
NSN 5996-01-156-4092
NSN 5930-00-175-8720
NSN 6135-00-166-5984
NSN 5999-00-290-5898