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 5915-01-607-4773
NSN 6320-00-110-8005
NSN 5855-01-088-8700
NSN 6105-01-016-0986
NSN 6240-01-642-9552
NSN 5960-01-564-5044
NSN 2925-01-535-7235
NSN 6105-00-288-5872
NSN 5895-01-641-8313
NSN 5835-01-094-2662
NSN 2925-00-142-9919
NSN 5915-00-337-0811