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 5985-01-029-0589
NSN 6150-00-223-5840
NSN 5996-01-145-0237
NSN 6105-01-104-3028
NSN 5965-01-058-1076
NSN 6150-01-396-9566
NSN 5895-01-380-3349
NSN 5910-00-385-1149
NSN 5905-01-417-2987
NSN 5920-00-314-6870
NSN 5910-01-512-0626
NSN 5910-01-580-0443