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 5920-01-351-5536
NSN 6320-00-456-2092
NSN 5999-01-159-8571
NSN 5985-01-429-7173
NSN 2925-00-246-3077
NSN 5990-01-264-9759
NSN 5905-01-535-1343
NSN 5895-00-900-5449
NSN 2925-01-273-4898
NSN 6150-00-194-0930
NSN 5965-01-116-1886
NSN 5990-01-630-5094