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 6320-01-388-9450
NSN 5915-01-063-5908
NSN 5935-01-043-6692
NSN 5905-00-671-8396
NSN 6650-00-172-7519
NSN 5975-01-470-2998
NSN 5996-00-336-3046
NSN 6240-01-413-8028
NSN 5998-01-523-4966
NSN 5950-01-491-1525
NSN 5920-00-892-2640
NSN 6610-01-053-0061