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 5925-01-320-6528
NSN 5910-00-231-5977
NSN 5920-00-521-8331
NSN 6620-01-550-8573
NSN 5996-00-779-8349
NSN 5945-00-098-5374
NSN 5975-01-167-3934
NSN 5960-00-100-6045
NSN 5950-01-065-2288
NSN 5996-01-019-0664
NSN 5855-01-483-1350
NSN 6145-01-050-7531