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 5915-01-092-8178
NSN 6105-01-632-3606
NSN 5945-01-308-4832
NSN 5915-01-534-7614
NSN 5945-01-549-2192
NSN 5999-00-091-6360
NSN 5915-01-013-8995
NSN 6105-01-615-3114
NSN 5960-01-641-5493
NSN 5999-01-125-6698
NSN 6110-00-411-5830
NSN 6685-01-306-4747