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 5915-01-382-4588
NSN 4140-00-781-9432
NSN 7035-00-679-9027
NSN 5945-01-532-6285
NSN 5990-01-160-6978
NSN 5930-00-991-0752
NSN 5895-01-054-3303
NSN 5998-01-245-8513
NSN 6620-01-608-8548
NSN 6685-01-115-6534
NSN 6620-01-432-7032
NSN 6610-01-152-2821