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 5855-01-472-8320
NSN 5960-01-374-3527
NSN 5920-01-627-8327
NSN 5950-00-529-0599
NSN 5935-01-399-8732
NSN 5996-01-112-0154
NSN 6145-00-308-7189
NSN 6105-01-145-2681
NSN 6105-01-526-6140
NSN 5895-00-958-7607
NSN 5915-01-109-6249
NSN 5925-00-035-8469