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 5996-00-510-4540
NSN 6240-01-538-5525
NSN 5965-00-153-5216
NSN 5996-00-351-2369
NSN 5985-01-205-3172
NSN 2925-01-359-4027
NSN 5915-00-353-0853
NSN 5895-01-631-1644
NSN 6650-00-857-2260
NSN 5920-01-323-6739
NSN 5915-01-472-3620
NSN 5985-01-633-1304