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 5925-01-429-0392
NSN 6110-01-552-0101
NSN 6650-01-190-2304
NSN 5905-01-418-3868
NSN 5855-01-592-3128
NSN 4140-01-632-9409
NSN 5985-01-100-6129
NSN 5945-00-258-5061
NSN 2925-01-041-8201
NSN 5999-01-141-6120
NSN 5915-00-049-3546
NSN 5998-01-463-3099