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 5920-01-488-9390
NSN 6145-00-839-8639
NSN 5945-00-869-8513
NSN 4140-01-350-8723
NSN 5895-00-023-8561
NSN 5905-01-072-4687
NSN 6620-01-591-6681
NSN 5905-01-528-7879
NSN 6645-00-864-6794
NSN 5985-00-659-9509
NSN 6220-00-844-1722
NSN 5895-01-475-9012