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 5895-01-255-4548
NSN 5965-00-249-6980
NSN 5895-01-367-2683
NSN 5990-01-423-8189
NSN 5990-00-501-4994
NSN 6145-01-291-0808
NSN 5975-01-187-2725
NSN 5985-00-716-5298
NSN 6135-01-054-2462
NSN 6130-01-050-5980
NSN 5945-00-963-1635
NSN 5950-01-237-9445