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 7035-01-395-9174
NSN 5999-01-200-6642
NSN 5920-01-065-1824
NSN 5925-00-875-1296
NSN 5925-00-936-1628
NSN 5990-01-455-2919
NSN 6105-01-087-3503
NSN 5965-01-147-5847
NSN 5985-01-040-5878
NSN 5895-00-044-4738
NSN 6130-00-176-1664
NSN 2925-00-869-1451