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 5920-01-423-8595
NSN 4140-01-651-9191
NSN 5915-01-604-9868
NSN 5945-01-271-7456
NSN 6130-01-446-6252
NSN 5975-00-093-5527
NSN 5835-01-161-7461
NSN 4140-00-045-8117
NSN 6610-00-081-2365
NSN 2925-00-028-1481
NSN 5990-01-419-0661
NSN 5855-00-160-2286