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 5895-00-900-2381
NSN 6610-00-946-6146
NSN 2925-01-448-2880
NSN 4140-01-047-4093
NSN 5905-01-605-7465
NSN 5999-01-032-3373
NSN 6110-01-540-8733
NSN 2925-00-512-6737
NSN 6685-01-545-1393
NSN 5960-00-215-5884
NSN 5965-00-716-7078
NSN 5945-01-272-8904