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 5925-01-374-9249
NSN 5855-01-133-3587
NSN 7035-00-803-3056
NSN 6150-00-172-0431
NSN 5960-01-325-2241
NSN 5950-01-315-6081
NSN 5996-00-137-2684
NSN 5945-01-420-1323
NSN 6145-01-364-0074
NSN 5855-01-622-3894
NSN 5945-01-568-2132
NSN 6685-01-630-0729