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 5905-01-242-9378
NSN 5999-01-414-8613
NSN 5905-01-119-4259
NSN 4140-00-288-9826
NSN 6145-01-079-3265
NSN 6650-01-253-5654
NSN 6145-01-075-4996
NSN 4140-01-027-6020
NSN 5920-01-344-1571
NSN 5925-01-113-7793
NSN 6240-01-075-9082
NSN 6685-01-100-1071