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 5930-01-237-3974
NSN 5945-01-519-2369
NSN 5985-00-199-0217
NSN 5999-01-411-1938
NSN 5996-01-271-9927
NSN 2925-01-055-9705
NSN 6220-00-719-7714
NSN 4140-00-247-3664
NSN 5895-01-608-7651
NSN 5945-01-355-7020
NSN 6150-01-313-9832
NSN 5920-01-444-4082